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evade, invade
evade (i VAYD) (verb)
To avoid in a dexterous manner, turn aside, baffle: Silas tried to evade telling the truth by giving ambiguous answers to the police.
invade (in VAYD) (verb)
To encroach with the intent to take over, conquer, or to plunder: The weeds in the field will invade the garden unless they are cut down.

The speaker tried to evade questions that were being asked about the efforts of a large educational publisher to invade the small country school systems.

invade
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invade, inveighed
invade (in VAYD) (verb)
1. To enter a territory for the purpose of conquest: The ships sought to invade the country by sailing up the river.
2. To become medically dangerous: Without treatment, the doctors were afraid that gangrene would invade the wound.
inveighed (in VAYD) (verb)
Having complained or protested strongly and bitterly: The populace inveighed against the building of the highway so close to the village.

It seemed like the big box industrial building was set to invade the neighborhood despite the efforts of the local residents who inveighed in vane against the incursion.

A unit related to: “invade
(Latin: in, into, within, inside, on, toward [il-, ir-, im-], in, into, etc.: involve, incur, invade; also, used intensively, as in the words inflame and inflammable, or without perceptible force.)