INVADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invading mean? 

• INVADING (adjective)
  The adjective INVADING has 1 sense:

1. involving invasion or aggressive attack

  Familiarity information: INVADING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVADING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving invasion or aggressive attack

Synonyms:

incursive; invading; invasive

Context example:

invasive war

Similar:

offensive (for the purpose of attack rather than defense)

 Context examples 

Specific families of pattern recognition receptors are responsible for detecting foreign DNA from invading microbes or host cells and generating innate immune responses.

(Cytosolic DNA-Sensing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Both swift and powerful, millions of complement components can deposit on an invading microbe within only a few minutes.

(Complement Component Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of malignant glandular epithelial cells invading through the muscularis mucosa into the submucosa.

(Colorectal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

However, supposing myself to be a minister of state, I could never give my advice for invading them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This gene plays a role in the disassembly of the extracellular matrix by invading cells.

(HPSE Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Any organism, such as a virus, parasite, or bacterium, that is capable of invading body tissues and multiplying.

(Infectious Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

Suppression decreases the ability of lymphocytes to mount an immune response to invading substances.

(Negative Regulation of Lymphocyte Activation, NCI Thesaurus)

Stimulation increases the immune response to invading substances.

(Lymphocyte Activation Process, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of a malignant cellular infiltrate invading the muscularis mucosa.

(Invasion of Muscularis Mucosa Present, NCI Thesaurus)

DNA synthesis initiates from the 3' end of the invading DNA strand, using the intact chromosome as the template, and progresses to the end of the chromosome.

(Break-Induced Replication, NCI Thesaurus)