retrude
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin retrudere; re- + trudere (“to thrust”).
Verb
editretrude (third-person singular simple present retrudes, present participle retruding, simple past and past participle retruded)
- To thrust back.
- 1670, The Golden Calf, translation of original by Johann Friedrich Schweitzer:
- our Tincture of Philosophers is both included, and retruded
References
edit- “retrude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
editVerb
editretrūde