Word of the Day-incursion

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

incursion和invasion有区别么?

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