How to pronounce“incursion”in English
people to leave that area within 24 hours for their own safety in anticipation of increasing Israeli attacks in the area. Indeed, an Israeli
incursion, or even what some people here are calling an Israeli invasion. The United Nations has told the BBC tonight that Israeli troops are already inside
villages in southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah itself has said there have been fierce clashes in villages well inside the border. So, it's an ominous
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Definitions of “incursion”
A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government; contrast invasion in its narrow sense.
An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
“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.”
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