reinvade
/ˌriːɪnˈveɪd/
verb
- To enter and take control of a place again by force, especially after having left or been driven out.
- The army prepared to reinvade the territory they had lost in the previous war.
- Historians debate whether the empire would have tried to reinvade the region.
- The enemy forces regrouped and planned to reinvade at dawn.
- To spread into or overrun an area again, especially of pests, plants, or diseases.
- If we don't treat the garden, the ivy will reinvade the flower beds.
- The ants reinvade the kitchen every summer despite our efforts to block them.
- After the fire, invasive weeds began to reinvade the cleared land.