obtrude

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/əbˈtɹuːd/(UK)
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/əbˈtɹuːd/(UK) · /ɒbˈtɹuːd/(UK)

Definition of obtrude

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.
    “By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.”
    “It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]”
    “The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.
    “By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.”
    “It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]”
    “The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.”
  2. (intransitive)To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into).
    “How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!—They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them!”
    “Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.”
    “Occasionally the thought obtruded itself that possibly at some later day Tarzan would regret his magnanimity, and claim his rights.”
    “It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life.”
    “In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.”
  3. (reflexive)To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.
    “She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.”
    “This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?"”
    “As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself.”

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Etymology

From Latin obtrūdō (“thrust off or against”), from ob- (“ob-”) + trūdō (“thrust”).

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