Difference between Invade and Occupy

INVADE vs OCCUPY: VERB

To move into.
To intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate
Penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way
Occupy in large numbers or live on a host
To infest or overrun.
March aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation

Live (in a certain place)
Assume, as of positions or roles
Consume all of one's attention or time
Require (time or space)
To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
To hold the attention of.
To fill or hold (an official position or role).
To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
To live or reside in.
To fill (time).
Engage or engross wholly
Be on the mind of
March aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
Be present in; be inside of
Keep busy with
As of time or space
Occupy the whole of
To fill (space).

To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively.
To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack.

To engage or employ the attention or concentration of.
To hold or fill (an office or position).
To dwell or reside in (an apartment, for example).
To fill up (time or space).
To seize possession of and maintain control over forcibly or by conquest.
To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill.
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
To do business in; to busy one's self with.
To use; to expend; to make use of.
To have sexual intercourse with.

. To go into or upon; enter.
Hence To come into or upon as if by a hostile incursion; make an attack upon.
To enter or penetrate into as an enemy; go or pass into or over with hostile intent, as in a military incursion.

To trade; traffic; carry on business.
To take possession of and retain or keep; enter upon the possession and use of; hold and use; especially, to take possession of (a place as a place of residence, or in warfare a town or country) and become established in it.
Synonyms 1-3. Hold, Own, etc. See possess.
To take up, as room or space, or attention, interest, etc.; cover or fill; engross: as, to occupy too much space; to occupy the time with reading; to occupy the attention.
To possess; enjoy (with an obscene double meaning).
To use; make use of.
To employ; give occupation to; engage; busy: often used reflexively: as, to occupy one's self about something.
To be in possession or occupation; hold possession; be an occupant; have possession and use.
To take up and follow as a business or employment; be employed about; ply.
To hold, as an office; fill.

Devastate, Aggression, Attack, Penetrate, Trespass, Encroach, Pummel, Ravage, Overrun, Conquer, Invasion, Intrude on, Obtrude upon, Occupy, Encroach upon

Reoccupy, Lodge in, Use up, Interest, Concern, Worry, Busy, Engross, Absorb, Engage, Take, Invade, Fill, Reside, Inhabit

Blitz, Embrace, Violate, Rise, Devastate, Aggression, Attack, Trespass, Pummel, Ravage, Overrun, Conquer, Invasion, Intrude on, Occupy

Serve, Employ, Monopolize, Populate, Reoccupy, Use up, Interest, Concern, Worry, Busy, Engross, Take, Invade, Fill, Reside

The Mongols, led by Timur, invade Northern India.
Buddha riding a dragon, threatening to invade Europe.
Unseelie were freed to invade the human realms.
Plus, The Joker and Harley Quinn invade Metropolis!
Plans to invade Kashmir and Chitral were considered.
Other antigens invade the body and cause disease.
Loners invade and outperform populations of defectors, cooperators or punishers invade and outperform populations of loners, and defectors invade and outperform populations of cooperators.
Only the Belgians are required not to invade Holland, and only the Dutch are required not to invade Belgium.
What will you do if the East Germans invade from the West and the Soviets invade from the East?
French force would invade the canal area and subsequently invade Cairo.

Masonry default: Try to occupy highest available position.
Hydrogen atoms occupy two corners of the tetrahedron, and the nonbonding electron pairs of the oxygen atom occupy the other two corners.
DANGEROUS BUILDING DO NOT OCCUPY It is a misdemeanor infraction to occupy this building, or to remove or deface this notice.
Harlan, he thought, believed that they should occupy the position that historically they were intended to occupy by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The landlord plans to occupy the property or have close family occupy the property.
Occupy recovers the word from its martial meaning of invade and occupy, while retaining the resistance to removal inherent in the word.
Occupy UC Davis is a series of Occupy Movement demonstrations at the University of California, Davis.
The key Occupy themes ofwealth inequality and economic injustice had been tacitly marginalized in American political discourse but Occupy dragged them to the forefront.
However for discussion purposes it will occupy effectively the same amount of memory that a package built to run once per minute would occupy.
Unlike liquids, however, unconstrained gases do not occupy a fixed volume, but instead expand to fill whatever space they occupy.