Inroad

Definition: Inroad

Inroad

Noun

1. An encroachment or intrusion; "they made inroads in the US market".

2. An invasion or hostile attack.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "inroad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Inroad

Attack

Aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at.

Deterioration

Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion,impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy.

Ingress

Noun: ingress; entrance, entry; introgression; influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption; ingression; penetration, interpenetration; illapse, import, infiltration; immigration; admission; (reception); insinuation; (interjacence); insertion.

Crosswords: Inroad

'Tis not a change from the present state, which perhaps corruption or decay has introduced, that makes an inroad upon the government, but the tendency of it to injure or oppress the people, and to set up one part or party, with a distinction from, and an unequal subjection of the rest. (Second Treatise of Government)

Expression using "inroad": make inroad into. Additional references.

Albanian

invadim (inbreak, invasion), sulm (aggression, assault, attack, cannonade, charge, dash, descent, drive, hit, mugging, offence, offensive, onfall, onset, onslaught, push, raid, razzia, rush, strike, thrust). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير يهجم (raid), ‏غزوة (foray, incursion), ‏غزو (infest, invasion), ‏غارة (descent, incursion, pinch, raid, sortie), ‏إنتهاك (contravention, desecration, encroachment, infringement, invasion, transgression, violation), ‏إعتداء (assault, battery, entrenchment, offensive, onset, violation, wrong, wrongdoing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нашествие (incursion, invasion, irruption, outbreak, razzia), набег (foray, raid), посегателство (aggression, encroachment, impingement, infringement, invasion, violation). (various references)

Chinese 

突袭 (foray). (various references)

Czech

vpád (incursion, invasion, irruption, raid). (various references)

Farsi 

هجوم (Influx, Invasion, Offense, Onset, Throng), حمله (Access, Assault, Attack, Charge, Offense, Offensive, Onrush, Onset, Onslaught, Rush, Sally, Spell, Venue), تهاجم (Agression, Incursion, Invasion), تکش (Attack), تعدی (Abusive, Incursion, Infringe, Oppression), تاخت وتاز (Attack, Incursion, Invasion, Onset, Raid, Ravage). (various references)

French

incursion (incursion, invasion), violation (infringement), avancer dans les territoires, attaquer (incurve, lace into), agression (insult, interacting event). (various references)

German

einfall (incidence, invasion, idea, incursion, vagary), überfall (raid). (various references)

Greek 

κατανάλωση (consumption), εισβολή (invasion, incursion), επιδρομή (foray, raid). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחדור (bore, enter, get home, get through, infiltrate, penetrate, permeate), לנגוס (bite into, bite off, inroads, nibble), חדירה (incursion, infiltration, penetration). (various references)

Hungarian

támadás (attack, raid, aggression, offence, offense, onset, push). (various references)

Indonesian

serangan (bout, offence, onrush, onset). (various references)

Italian

intromissione (intromission), incursione (foray, incursion, raid, swoop). (various references)

Manx

cur stiagh er (annoy, call in, heckle, incommode, inconvenience, infringe, infringement, interference, interrupt, intervene, invade, invasion, molest, molestation), baarney (deficit, gap, interlude, interstice, slash). (various references)

Pig Latin

inroaday.(various references)

Portuguese

invasão (invasion), incursão (excursion, foray, invasion, raid), usurpação (usurpation), desgaste (wear, wear and tear), abuso (abuse). (various references)

Romanian

incursiune (excursion, foray, incursion, raid), atac (access, apoplexy, assault, attack, charge, dash, fit, go, jump off, offence, offensive, onset, paroxysm, storm, stroke, touch), încãlcare (contravention, encroachment, infraction, infringement, invasion, offence, violation). (various references)

Russian 

вторжение (encroachment, inbreak, incursion, invasion), набег;посягятельство, посягательство (encroachment, infringement, invasion). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadiranje (encroachment), upad (inbreak, incursion, intrusion, invasion), prepad (attack, foray, hold up, incursion, raid). (various references)

Spanish

incursión (incursion). (various references)

Swedish

intrång (intrusion, infringement). (various references)

Thai

การล่วงล้ำ. (various references)

Turkish

tecâvüz (aggression, an outrage upon decency, assault, breaking in, desecration, encroachment, incursion, infraction, infringement, intrusion, invasion, offence, offense, outrage, rape, trespass, violence), gedik (breach, crevice, Nick, notch, rent), baskın (descent, dominant, forage, foray, heavy, incursion, irruption, overpowering, predominant, preponderant, prepotent, raid, sudden attack, surprise, swoop), akın (afflux, exodus, flow, foray, incursion, inflow, influent, influx, inrush, invasion, irruption, raid, razzia, rush, spate). (various references)

Ukrainian

набіг, замах (attempt, encroachment, infringement). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xâm nhập cuộc đột nhập. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "inroad": inroads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Inroad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Finrad, Injoyd, inload, inoed, inored, inradd, Inria, iread, Iroda, Niord, norad. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ordain.

-1 letter: adorn, aroid, danio, dinar, drain, nadir, noria, radio, radon, ranid.

-2 letters: airn, arid, darn, dona, inro, iron, naoi, nard, nodi, noir, nori, orad, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind, road, roan.

-3 letters: ado, aid, ain, air, and, ani, din, don, dor, ion, nod, nor, oar, ora, rad, ran, ria, rid, rin, rod.

-4 letters: ad, ai.

+1 letter: adoring, andiron, android, aneroid, diatron, inboard, inroads, ordains, ordinal, padroni, poniard, sadiron.

+2 letters: adorning, airbound, andirons, androids, aneroids, antidora, arointed, boarding, braconid, cancroid, cordwain, debonair, diatrons, dinosaur, doornail, draconic, duration, fricando, hadronic, hoarding, inboards, intrados, ironclad, nondairy, ordained, ordainer, ordinals, ordinand, ordinary, ordinate, organdie, paranoid, poniards, pyranoid, radioing, radioman, radiomen, raindrop, rationed, reordain, rhodamin, rigadoon, rigaudon, sadirons, sardonic, tandoori, tornadic, trinodal.