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INTRUDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intruding mean?
• INTRUDING (adjective)
The adjective INTRUDING has 1 sense:
1. projecting inward
Familiarity information: INTRUDING used as an adjective is very rare.
Context examples
Mr. Darcy related the mistake which had occasioned his intruding on Miss Bennet, and after sitting a few minutes longer without saying much to anybody, went away.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug chamber.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I desired, as I have explained, to keep my visit to you a secret, lest my husband should think that I was intruding into his affairs.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They had too much sense to be desirable companions to the former; and by the latter they were considered with a jealous eye, as intruding on THEIR ground, and sharing the kindness which they wanted to monopolize.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The ruffian Woodley was a very different person, but, except on one occasion, he had not molested our client, and now he visited the house of Carruthers without intruding upon her presence.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively resolved—nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on the contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley's carriage immediately, and at length it was settled that their original design of leaving Netherfield that morning should be mentioned, and the request made.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths—intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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