contrude

verb

1. (intransitive, rare, transitive)to crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)

   “She now needed braces, as her teeth were contruded.”

   “Were it not for this attachment on the bow, the force of the elastic upon the cuspid over which it would pass would contrude it, unless it was secured to the bow with a band attachment.”

2. (intransitive, rare, transitive)to crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)
3. (intransitive, transitive)to cause a downward or inward curve line of the strata
4. (intransitive, rare, transitive)to motivate; to influence

   “Nothing contrudes him to behave!”

5. (intransitive, transitive)to envisage; to imagine

   “Contrude you were the king.”

   “Contrude the spot must be one where the tide in the ordinary and regular coul of things flove and reflors. Since th peace in question is not affected I ordinary tides, the right of the purk CASE stated by justices under 20 & 21 Vict. c. 43, the facts of which ofish here were in substance as follows. rended for by the ay”

6. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive)to thrust or crowd together; to cram

   “We were too tired to take the stairs and decided to contrude ourselves into the small elevator.”

   “If beaſts and Birds ſo gratefull be; What then Shall we imagine of theſe thankleſſ Men, But, That there's a Ghinnon to contrude All guilty of ſuch baſe ingratitude?”

   “3. Flame, if it be much compressed and straightened, is extinguished; as we may see in a candle having a glass cast over it, for the air being dilated by the heat doth contrude and thrust together the flame, and so lesseneth it, and in the end extinguisheth it; and fires on hearths will not flame, if the fuel be thrust close together, without any space for the flame to break forth.”