intrude

From Latin intrudere, from in- + trudere (“to thrust”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹuːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

intrude (third-person singular simple present intrudes, present participle intruding, simple past and past participle intruded)

1. (intransitive) To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.

   to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another

   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:

     Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them.

2. (transitive) To force in.

• intruder

• intrusion

• invade

• turdine, untired, untride, untried

• IPA^(key): /inˈtru.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: in‧trù‧de

intrude

1. third-person singular present indicative of intrudere