The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word INVASION
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More clues leading to the result INVASION
- Offensive occupation?
- Home by five when in old reserved occupation
- A forced entry may be in vain, so planned
- Popular remix of ‘So Vain’ becomes offensive
- Rampaging so in vain attack
- Ivan is bent on intrusion
- Smart and so vain, terribly offensive
- Vain son I ordered to get occupation
- D-Day, for example, is no vain struggle
- Popular victory, when no one is up for forced entry
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What does INVASION mean?
INVASION noun- A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
- The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.
- The spread of cancer cells, bacteries and such to the organism.
- The breaching of the skin barrier.