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Verb edit

intruding

  1. present participle and gerund of intrude

Noun edit

intruding (plural intrudings)

  1. intrusion
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
      [] he rose and adjusted his alarm-clock, so that it would emphatically repeat the hour of five. Then to bed again, and driving off all intrudings of thoughtfulness, and resolutely bending himself to slumber, he by-and-by fell into its [] arms.