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Invasive   Listen
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Invasive  adj.  
1.
Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. "Invasive war."
2.
(Med.) Tending to spread, especially tending to intrude into healthy tissue; used mostly of tumors. (Narrower terms: malignant) PJC)





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"Invasive" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasion." He becomes pertinacious as he is offensive. He tramples upon more than one pair of feet in his struggle to reach the middle of the omnibus. The passengers patiently submit to the intrusion with that quiet good nature with which Americans usually suffer imposition invasive of good manners, or petty social rights. They seem to feel they can "stand it" if ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 • Various


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