intrude
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From Latin intrudere, from in- + trudere (“to thrust”).
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intrude (third-person singular simple present intrudes, present participle intruding, simple past and past participle intruded)
- (intransitive) 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
- I. Watts
- Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them.
- (transitive) To force in.
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to enter without welcome; to encroach
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