noun
- Any entry into an area not previously occupied.
- usage: "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts"
- synonyms: invasion, encroachment
- Entrance by force or without permission or welcome.
- The forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation.
- Rock produced by an intrusive process.
- Entry to another's property without right or permission.
- synonyms: trespass, encroachment, violation, usurpation
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