Definitions

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  • adjective that take part in a military invasion
  • adjective invasive

Etymologies

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invasion +‎ -ary

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Examples

  • Having the head political wizard of the McGovern campaign (note: Frank Mankiewicz) waiting for Thompson in the bushes outside his hotel to club him over the head in retribution for something Hunter had done was very much an invasionary possession of the poor fellow by some demon of drug-taking.

    Suddenly: GONZO Ben Abraham 2009

  • Having the head political wizard of the McGovern campaign (note: Frank Mankiewicz) waiting for Thompson in the bushes outside his hotel to club him over the head in retribution for something Hunter had done was very much an invasionary possession of the poor fellow by some demon of drug-taking.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • The wars were written in ink prior to the 9-11 and was from the begining intended to be used as the springboard to begin the invasionary wars of aggression.

    Give Obama a Chance to Do What? Revisited 2009

  • The wars were written in ink prior to the 9-11 and was from the begining intended to be used as the springboard to begin the invasionary wars of aggression.

    Give Obama a Chance to Do What? Revisited 2009

  • The wars were written in ink prior to the 9-11 and was from the begining intended to be used as the springboard to begin the invasionary wars of aggression.

    Give Obama a Chance to Do What? Revisited 2009

  • The wars were written in ink prior to the 9-11 and was from the begining intended to be used as the springboard to begin the invasionary wars of aggression.

    Give Obama a Chance to Do What? Revisited 2009

  • Peter Milligan is my favorite of the large invasionary force of British comic writers that began to arrive on our shores in the mid-eighties.

    365 Reasons to Love Comics #310 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • Their ranks have not swelled because of Sheehan – they have swelled because of the invasionary force, and because of the war crimes committed by the invasionary force (regardless of whether they were “rogue elements” or ordered from above – the actions of EVERY person acting in the name of our country is a direct refelction on our country, and ourselves).

    Think Progress » BUSH VIDEO: “We Must Always Ask Ourselves Not Only What Is Legal, But What Is Right” 2005

  • There would be plenty of US American "insurgents" and "terrorists" in the United States if India sent an invasionary force of 150,000 to gain control of our fresh water supply.

    JASON MILLER INTERVIEWED BY CAROLYN BAKER 2007

  • They could inflate this marginal regime into a threat the size of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade balloon, knock them down swiftly with minimal US casualties and then have access to a huge trove of oil, as a kind of tribute of war, which they could use to pipe money into the portfolio of private contractors who acted as a kind of second invasionary force.

    Pentagon Thievery 2006

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