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intrude

verbattested in dialogue

  • //ɪnˈtɹuːd//

To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.

verb

  1. 1

    To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.

    to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another

    The noise of machinery intruded on an otherwise quiet morning.

    Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them.

    An American "SR-71" high-speed and high-altitude reconnaissance plane intruded 33 miles within the military security line east of Kosong County of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yesterday for espionage and hostile acts, according to KCNA.

  2. 2

    To force in.

Etymology

From Latin intrudere, from in- + trudere (“to thrust”).

Forms

past tense
intruded
past participle
intruded
present participle
intruding
third person singular
intrudes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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