inroad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnɹəʊd/
ipa: /ˈɪnˌɹoʊd/
Forms: form: inroads
form: inroading
form: inroaded
form: inroaded
Etymology: The noun is derived from in + road (“(obsolete) act of riding on horseback; hostile ride against a particular area, raid”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou muſt not expect him to go with you, inroading or making incurſions into Georgia; for he is an Armenian, true to his faith; and not a Georgian, falſe and diſtruſtful!
ref: 1792, Joseph Emin, The Life and Adventures of Joseph Émïn, an Armenian. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 358:
text: [T]his is the first war that has befallen in my time, and no inimy has yet inroaded far enough into the Colony, to be reached by an arm even longer than mine.
ref: 1841, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, chapter IV, in The Deerslayer: A Tale. […], 1st British edition, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: All about the dreaming sea-board, but tucked well out of sight, lurked those guardians of the environment—filters, slurpers, booms, vacuums, ultramodern aids to deal with the very latest imperishables. All ruinously expensive to mount, and inroading sizeably into profit margins, but part of the small print that nearly drove Boyle barmy.
ref: 1982, Kamala Markandaya [pseudonym; Kamala Purnaiya], chapter 26, in Shalimar (A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book), 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 167:
text: […] Kvenland and Scythian Amazons […] poisoned Anund and his troops when they were inroading in Vinland or Kvenland.
ref: 2018, Pia Piiroinen, Me Habirut Mahabharata: Part 1, Helsinki, Finland; Norderstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: To make advances or incursions.
examples: text: [Y]ea, the Saracens had lately waſted Italy, conquered Spain, inroded Aquitain, and poſſeſſed ſome iſlands in the mid-land-ſea.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Character of Peter the Hermite; His Soliciting the Holy Warre; the Councel at Clermont, and the Successe thereof”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book I, page 14:
text: The kyngdom of Heven be Chriſt, 'teys reſembled to this noble kyng / With riches inroded mercy for to lern, and to have compaſſion. / One of another, after goddes Faſſyon.
ref: 1781, “Hundred of Depwade”, in History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, volumes II (Containing the Hundreds of Clavering, Depwade, Diss, and Earsham), Norwich, Norfolk: […] J. Crouse, for M. Booth, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 127:
text: Andy was especial inroaded by self-esteem at our success, the rudiments of the scheme having originated in his own surmises and premonitions.
ref: 1908, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Octopus Marooned”, in The Gentle Grafter, New York, N.Y.: The McClure Company, →OCLC, page 11:
text: Furthermore, what initially was the main domain of record labels—the financing of music productions—was also inroaded by business outsiders.
ref: 2012, Peter Tschmuck, “The Digital Music Revolution”, in Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg; New York, N.Y.: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 194:
text: [I]n June 2008, the Ras Doumeirah incident happened. Eritrean forces inroaded the Ras Doumeirah principality, a strategic place at the narrowest crossing point to the Gulf of Aden at the strait of Babeal Mendeb.
ref: 2019, Everisto Benyera, “Borders and the Coloniality of Human Mobility: A View from Africa”, in Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, editors, African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration (Border Regions Series), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: invade
glosses: To make an inroad into (something).
Related terms: make headway