obtrude
pronunciation
How to pronounce obtrude in British English:
UK [əbˈtru:d]
How to pronounce obtrude in American English:
US [ɑbˈtrud, əb-]
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- Verb:
- push to thrust outward
- thrust oneself in as if by force
Word Origin
- obtrude (v.)
- 1550s, from Latin obtrudere "to thrust into, press upon," from ob "toward" (see ob-) + trudere "to thrust" (see extrusion). Related: Obtruded; obtruding.
Example
- 1. You had better not obtrude your opinions on others .
- 2. You have better not obtrude your opinion upon others .
- 3. That the novelist should not obtrude into the narrative .
- 4. Don 't obtrude your ideas upon others .
- 5. I don 't want to obtrude upon her grief .