Word Meanings - INCURSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered

Additional info about word: INCURSION

1. A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire. Arbuthnot. 2. Attack; occurrence. Sins of daily incursion. South. Syn. -- Invasion; inroad; raid; foray; sally; attack; onset; irruption. See Invasion.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCURSION)

• Aggression
• Invasion
• attack
• offence
• onslaught
• encroachment
• assault
• provocation
• incursion
• Inroad
• raid
• dragonnade
• irruption
• trespass
• infringement
• Irruption
• Incursion
• invasion
• inundation
• inburst

Related words: (words related to INCURSION)

• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• ONSLAUGHT
  1. An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras. 2. A bloody fray or battle. Jamieson.
• ASSAULT
  An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane,
• INBURST
  A bursting in or into.
• ATTACK
  1. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden. 2. To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism
• OFFENCE
  See OFFENSE
• IRRUPTION
  1. A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea. Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep. Milton. 2. A sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders; as, the
• INCURSION
  1. A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered
• INUNDATION
  1. The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie. 2. An overspreading
• ATTACKABLE
  Capable of being attacked.
• ENCROACHMENT
  An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another. (more info) 1. The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil
• PROVOCATION
  Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress. 5. An appeal to a court. Note: Ayliffe. (more info) 1. The act of provoking, or causing vexation
• TRESPASSER
  One who commits a trespass; as: One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights. A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.
• DRAGONNADE
  The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands.
• ATTACKER
  One who attacks.
• INFRINGEMENT
  1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.
• INVASION
  1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass. 2. A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. 3.
• INROAD
  The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads
• AGGRESSION
  The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam Syn. -- Attack; offense; intrusion; provocation.
• ASSAULTER
  One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant. E. Hall.
• OFFENSE; OFFENCE
  1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury. Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification. Rom. iv. 25. I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men,