incursion

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

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən

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.

• attack
• movement

• incur
• incursive

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

• cornusiin

From Old French, from Latin incursiō, incursiōnem.

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incursion f (plural incursions)

1. incursion
2. foray
3. excursion

• encourir

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