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Invasive

adjective

Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision.

Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue.

Involving invasion or aggressive attack. Synonyms: incursive, invading.

Gradually intrusive without right or permission. Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing. "Invasive tourists" , "Trespassing hunters"

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"Invasive" Quotes from Famous Books

... claim connected with that fort. But the possession of the fort can not, in regard to the State of South Carolina, be compensated by any consideration of any kind from the Government of the United States, when the possession of it by the Government is invasive of the dignity and affects the safety of the State. That possession can not become now a matter of discussion or negotiation. You will, therefore, require from the President of the United States a positive and ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... string Rang, and sprang inward, and the waterish air Hissed, and the moist plumes of the songless reeds Moved as a wave which the wind moves no more. But the boar heaved half out of ooze and slime His tense flank trembling round the barbed wound, Hateful, and fiery with invasive eyes And bristling with intolerable hair Plunged, and the hounds clung, and green flowers and white Reddened and broke all round them where they came. And charging with sheer tusk he drove, and smote Hyleus; and sharp death caught his sudden soul, And violent sleep shed ...

— Atalanta in Calydon • Algernon Charles Swinburne

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