See also: incursión

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

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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.

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Inherited from Old French, from Latin incursiōnem.

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incursion f (plural incursions)

  1. incursion
  2. foray
  3. excursion

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