Word of the Day Archive
Sunday November 30, 2008
incursion \in-KUR-zhuhn; -shuhn\ , noun:
1. a sudden attack; invasion, raid
2. a running or flowing in
Jerina's bulwarks failed to protect Bosnia from the last great incursion against Europe from the East, the invasions of Ottoman Turk armies into the southeastern corner of the continent beginning in the fourteenth century.
-- Chuck Sudetic, Blood and Vengeance
Yet that brutal incursion proved a fatal miscalculation on Brezhnev's part and the final turning point in the cold war.
-- Douglas Brinkley, The Unfinished Presidency
by 1432 "hostile attack," from Latin incursionem "a running against," from incurrere
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