I think we have made an inroad today.
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Inroad
//ˈɪnɹəʊd//
Synonyms for "inroad" (93 found)
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27 translations across 15 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- εἰσβολή noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
- ἐπιδρομή noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Aramaic
2 entries- מעלתא noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
- ܡܥܠܬܐ noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Armenian
1 entries- ասպատակ noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Bulgarian
1 entries- нашествие noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 竄犯 /窜犯 verb (to make advances or incursions)
French
4 entries- avancée noun (initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem)
- incursion noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
- pas en avant noun (initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem)
- percée noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Georgian
1 entries- თავდასხმა noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
German
1 entries- Einfall noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Latin
2 entries- dēcursiō noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
- ingressus noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- innfall noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- innfall noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Old Armenian
1 entries- ասպատակ noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Old English
1 entries- infaru noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Russian
4 entries- нае́зд noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
- наше́ствие noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
- прогре́сс noun (initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem)
- вто́ргнуться verb (to make advances or incursions)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nȁjezda noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
- на̏језда noun (advance into enemy territory — see also incursion)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
[…] That ſince that time he [Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus] was become the ſubject of King Henry [VIII] of England, his Majeſty's [James V of Scotland's] greateſt enemy; and was now the cauſe of all the Inroads made by the English into Scotland: […]
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[A] child knowing the heate of fire, will as readely iudge of the perrill, as the wiſeſt Senatour, of the inroad of a borderer, or the politick captaine, of the vnequall encoũter with his enimy, […]
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Whence is it that ſo many corrupt Opinions have made ſuch an Inroad on Proteſtant Religion, and the Profeſſion of it? Is it not from hence, that many have loſt an Experience of the power and efficacy of the Truth, and ſo have parted with it?
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