Definitions for intrude
in·trude

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. intrude, irruptverb

   enter uninvited

   "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room"

2. trespass, intrudeverb

   enter unlawfully on someone's property

   "Don't trespass on my land!"

3. intrude, horn in, pry, nose, pokeverb

   search or inquire in a meddlesome way

   "This guy is always nosing around the office"

4. intrude, obtrudeverb

   thrust oneself in as if by force

   "The colors don't intrude on the viewer"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. intrudeverb

   to enter without permission

2. Etymology: : From Latin intrudere, from in- + trudere, "to thrust".

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Intrudeverb

   To force without right or welcome.

   Not to intrude one's self into the mysteries of government, which the prince keeps secret, is represented by the winds shut up in a bull-hide, which the companions of Ulysses would needs be so foolish as to pry into. Alexander Pope.

2. To INTRUDEverb

   Etymology: intrudo, Latin.

   1. To come in unwelcome by a kind of violence; to enter without invitation or permission.

   Thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge
   And manners, to intrude where I am grac'd. William Shakespeare.

   The Jewish religion was yet in possession; and therefore that this might so enter, as not to intrude, it was to bring its warrant from the same hand of omnipotence. South.

   Forgive me, fair one, if officious friendship
   Intrudes on your repose, and comes thus late
   To greet you with the tidings of success. Nicholas Rowe, Ja. Shore.

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

   2. To encroach; to force in uncalled or unpermitted.

   Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humility, and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen by his fleshly mind. Col. ii. 18.

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1. intrude

   To intrude means to forcefully or inappropriately enter or interfere into a place, situation, or activity where one is not invited or considered unwelcome. This can be physically, such as entering a private property without permission, or metaphorically, such as involving oneself in a conversation or situation without invitation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Intrudeverb

   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

2. Intrudeverb

   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

3. Intrudeverb

   to enter by force; to invade

4. Intrudeverb

   the cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks

5. Etymology: [L. intrudere, intrusum; pref. in- in + trudere to thrust, akin to E. threat. See Threat.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Intrude

   in-trōōd′, v.i. to thrust one's self in: to enter uninvited or unwelcome.—v.t. to force in.—ns. Intrud′er; Intru′sion, act of intruding or of entering into a place without welcome or invitation: encroachment: a pushing in, an abnormal irruption, esp. in geology, of such rocks as have come up from below into another rock or series of beds; Intru′sionist, one who intrudes, esp. one of those who, before the Scotch Disruption of 1843, refused a parish the right of objecting to the settlement of an obnoxious minister by a patron:—opp. to Non-intrusionist.—adj. Intru′sive, tending or apt to intrude: entering without welcome or right.—adv. Intru′sively.—n. Intru′siveness. [L. in, in, trudĕre, trusum, to thrust.]

Matched Categories

1. • Enter
   • Search
   • Transgress

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Anagrams for intrude »

1. untried

2. turdine

3. untired

How to pronounce intrude?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of intrude in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of intrude in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of intrude in a Sentence

1. Charles Caleb Colton:

   The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

2. Bruce Brown:

   Now for the second time in just about as many weeks we've seen these disclosures that the DOJ has gone about obtaining records without advance notice to the journalist or to the news organization to give the reporter a chance to contest what DOJ is seeking, twice now we've seen in the prior administration that toward the end of their time in office they used this route to intrude into the very heart of what newsgathering is about.

3. Ron DeSantis:

   If somebody is symptomatic, of course they stay home. If there's a close contact, but somebody has not developed any symptoms -- you monitor them, you notify the parent, the parent always has the right to have their kids stay home, if they think that's in the best interest of the student and the family 100 percent, we would not want to intrude on that. But if a parent has a healthy child, that child has a right to be in school.

4. Ben Silverstone:

   The defendant accepts that such activity should never have taken place and that it had no right to intrude into the private lives of Ms Heather Mills or Fiona Mills in this way.

5. Unknown:

   It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=intrude
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Intrude
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=intrude
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrude
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=intrude
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=intrude