19 April 2018

inroad

[in-rohd]

noun

1. a damaging or serious encroachment:
inroads on our savings.
2. a sudden hostile or predatory incursion; raid; foray.

Origin of inroad

1540-1550 First recorded in 1540-50; in-1+ road

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Historical Examples

At all events, an inroad of careless courage was the consequence.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
George MacDonald

This change and desecration, this inroad of modernness, merely completes its eternity.
The Spirit of Rome
Vernon Lee

They have to repudiate the inroad, and stand by the inroad er.
Following the Equator, Complete
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

On this day

19 April 1987 – The Simpsons is first aired on television in the United States.

19 April 1993 – 70 members of the cult Branch Davidian sect, led by David Koresh, perish following a fire at their Waco compound. It is believed they lit the fire deliberately as federal agents stormed the compound following a siege that began in February 1993.

19 April 1995 – Terrorist Timothy McVeigh detonates a bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and injuring 680 people. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on 11 June 2001.