incursion

See also: incursión

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French, from Latin incursiō, incursiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/, /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən, -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

incursion (plural incursions)

1. An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion.
   • 1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:

     Fascinating though the journey is to the traveller, for many years this section of the line was a source of considerable anxiety to the maintenance engineers, and on more than one occasion landslips and incursions of the sea resulted in the railway being closed for several days.

Synonyms

• attack
• movement

Related terms

• incur
• incursive

Translations

aggressive movement

• Arabic: توغل
• Armenian: ասպատակություն (hy) (aspatakutʻyun), արշավանք (hy) (aršavankʻ), ներխուժում (hy) (nerxužum), հարձակում (hy) (harjakum)
• Bulgarian: нашествие (bg) n (našestvie), нахлуване (bg) n (nahluvane), набег (bg) m (nabeg)
• Czech: vpád m, vtrhnutí n
• Finnish: tunkeutuminen (fi)
• French: incursion (fr) f, invasion (fr) f
• German: Einfall (de) m, Eindringen (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: εἰσβολή f (eisbolḗ)

• Korean: 침입 (ko) (chimip)
• Latin: incursiō f
• Macedonian: у́пад m (úpad)
• Russian: вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije), наше́ствие (ru) n (našéstvije), набе́г (ru) m (nabég)
• Ukrainian: вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja), набіг m (nabih), наліт m (nalit), напад m (napad)

References

• “incursion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• cornusiin

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin incursiōnem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

incursion f (plural incursions)

1. incursion
2. foray
3. excursion

Related terms

• encourir

Further reading

• “incursion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.