intrude
pronunciation
How to pronounce intrude in British English:
UK [ɪnˈtruːd]
How to pronounce intrude in American English:
US [ɪnˈtruːd]
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- Verb:
- enter uninvited
- enter unlawfully on someone's property
- thrust oneself in as if by force
Word Origin
- intrude
- intrude: see abstruse
- intrude (v.)
- early 15c., back-formation from intrusion, or else from Latin intrudere "to thrust in" (see intrusion). Related: Intruded; intruding.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Banks occasionally intrude , but only to offer cheap loans to buy one or the other .
- 2. Rarely does the gulag intrude .
- 3. But eventually the complexities of the human world would intrude .
- 4. To do so would require them to be human resources experts and intrude in an area that rightly belongs to management .
- 5. But thailand 's treacherous politics may yet intrude , as any final agreement with china needs the nod from parliament .