OBTRUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obtrude mean? 

• OBTRUDE (verb)
  The verb OBTRUDE has 2 senses:

1. push to thrust outward

2. thrust oneself in as if by force

  Familiarity information: OBTRUDE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBTRUDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they obtrude    ... he / she / it obtrudes   
Past simple: obtruded   
Past participle: obtruded   
-ing form: obtruding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Push to thrust outward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

obtrude; push out; thrust out

Hypernyms (to "obtrude" is one way to...):

force; push (move with force)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

obtrusive (sticking out; protruding)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Thrust oneself in as if by force

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

intrude; obtrude

Context example:

The colors don't intrude on the viewer

Hypernyms (to "obtrude" is one way to...):

bring down; impose; inflict; visit (impose something unpleasant)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We have ever been far from wishing to obtrude ourselves on anyone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am glad to perceive that the plateau itself has actually obtruded itself upon your intelligence.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was destined, however, that all my professional caution should be wasted, for next morning the problem obtruded itself upon us in such a way that it was impossible to ignore it, and our country visit took a turn which neither of us could have anticipated.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I ventured to offer to the learned among them a conjecture of my own, that Laputa was quasi lap outed; lap, signifying properly, the dancing of the sunbeams in the sea, and outed, a wing; which, however, I shall not obtrude, but submit to the judicious reader.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don't believe), and obtruded himself on public notice.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The difficulty was great of driving his strange insensibility towards Harriet, from her mind, while he not only sat at her elbow, but was continually obtruding his happy countenance on her notice, and solicitously addressing her upon every occasion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

With a glance, she saw that he had lost none of his recent civility; and, to imitate his politeness, she began, as they met, to admire the beauty of the place; but she had not got beyond the words delightful, and charming, when some unlucky recollections obtruded, and she fancied that praise of Pemberley from her might be mischievously construed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)