Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Intrude   /ɪntrˈud/   Listen
verb
Intrude  v. t.  (past & past part. intruded; pres. part. intruding)  
1.
To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another.
2.
To enter by force; to invade. (Obs.) "Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?"
3.
(Geol.) The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.
Synonyms: To obtrude; encroach; infringe; intrench; trespass. See Obtrude.


Intrude  v. i.  To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another. "Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where I am graced." "Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Intrude" Quotes from Famous Books



... Caesar's life. I wish that those who may read them could know how unwillingly I undertook to write them, as then I might the more readily escape the imputation of folly and arrogance, in presuming to intrude among Caesar's writings. For it is agreed on all hands, that no composition was ever executed with so great care, that it is not exceeded in elegance by these Commentaries, which were published for the use of historians, that they might not want memoirs of such achievements; and they ...
— "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries • Caius Julius Caesar
... ago," I said, desperately, "I had an interview with the Baroness Bonnar, in which I warned her not to intrude upon ...
— In Direst Peril • David Christie Murray
... a change, as if he had hoped more. 'Your father had given me reason to trust,' he said, 'that you had recovered your spirits; otherwise I should hardly have presumed to intrude on you. And yet, before so long an absence, you cannot wonder that I ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. II) • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and I do beg pardon. I ain't one as would intrude wilful, and, as for listening, or the likes of that, I scorn it. But if this gentleman be anything ...
— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope
... who had by this time seen his dog fed, which was one of his daily pleasures, returned, and politely assured Lady Delacour that Juba should not again intrude. To make her peace with Mr. Vincent, and to drive the E O table from Belinda's thoughts, her ladyship now turned the conversation from Juba the dog, to Juba the man. She talked of Harriot Freke's phosphoric Obeah woman, of whom, she said, she had heard an account from Miss ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com