Invadir in english
Encroach
pronunciation: ɪnkroʊtʃ part of speech: verb
pronunciation: ɪnkroʊtʃ part of speech: verb
In gestures
invadir = encroach on/upon ; muscle in ; horn in ; invade ; overrun [over-run] ; come over ; wash over ; storm ; take over.
Example: We have not been alone, of course, in our concentration on inessentials; and ours is not the only profession that is being encroached upon by alternative professionals.Example: They are, however, very much in a minority in the high technology field and any feeling that the products of such courses are 'muscling in' on library and information work is hard to substantiate.Example: There might be some difficulty with agencies who see us as 'horning in' on their territory.Example: Information technology invades every facet of industrial, business and personal life.Example: Doomsayers persist in the belief that the book world has been overrun by philistinism.Example: 'I better go in,' Leforte muttered, a wearied, disillusioned expression coming over her pallid features.Example: The information rich are similarly paralyzed because of their inability to create order from all the information washing over them.Example: On October 6, 1976, an angry mob stormed the university to attack students who seemed to threaten the nation.Example: We need to replace those aspects of traditional public library service which have been taken over by other media or rendered redundant by social change.more:
» invadir el terreno (de Alguien) = encroach on/upon + Posesivo + domain .
Example: There seems a natural resistance to public library I & R services by other agencies providing similar services, who fear that the library is encroaching on their domain.» invadir la intimidad de Alguien = intrude on + Posesivo + privacy .
Example: The judge ruled that a magazine that published a photograph of a woman baring her breasts at a pig roast did not intrude on her privacy.» invadir lentamente = creep over .
Example: Her friends had perceived with regret that her buoyant spirits were giving place to unusual depression and that a languor was creeping over her glad eyes.