Obtrude

Definitions: Obtrude

Obtrude

Verb

1. Push to thrust outward.

2. Thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer".

Date "obtrude" was first used: sometime around 1555. (references)

Synonyms: Obtrude

Synonyms: intrude (v), push out (v), thrust out (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Tamper with, meddle, moil; intermeddle, interfere, interpose; obtrude; poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in.
Insertion	Obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce; (make a hole).
Interposition	Interfere, put in an oar, thrust one's nose in; intrude, obtrude; have a finger in the pie; introduce the thin end of the wedge; thrust in; (insert).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Obtrude

English words defined with "obtrude": Dry light ♦ obtrude upon, Obtruded, Obtruding ♦ Sorn ♦ To thrust one's self in. (references)

Etymologies containing "obtrude": Obtrusion. (references)

"Obtrude" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "Obtrude" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	72.73%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)	27.27%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

Expressions using "obtrude": obtrude oneself ♦ obtrude oneself on smb. ♦ obtrude smth. on smb. ♦ obtrude upon. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "obtrude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, go back, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, offend, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), paraqes (acquaint, bring in, bring up, delineate, demonstrate, denote, develop, display, feature, front, induct, introduce, introduce oneself, offer, portray, prefer, present, press, produce, propound, put, put in, recommend, render, represent, serve, show, stand for, submit), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), imponoj (enforce, impose, inflict, intrude). (various references)

Arabic		‏تطفل (cadge, crash, gatecrash, horn, impose, intrude, intrusion, meddle, mix in, nose, obtrusion, parasitize, pry, snoop, snooping), ‏تجاوز (cap, encroach, encroachment, exceed, excuse, jut, leapfrog, omission, outbalance, outmatch, outrun, outstrip, overreach, override, overrun, overtake, overtaking, pass, passing, project, rise, span, surpass, transcend, transcendence, transgress, trespass), ‏أخرج (bring out, direct, dispossess, draw out, egress, eject, fetch, get, give off, move out, poke, produce, push along, quit, read out, realize, remove, set, shell off, subtract, take out, vomit). (various references)

Bulgarian		натрапвам (foist, intrude, lumber, thrust, thrust in, thrust on, tout), меся се (interfere, intermeddle, meddle, tamper), бъркам се (dabble, interfere, intermeddle, meddle, mess in). (various references)

Chinese		强迫 (Compel, Compelled, Compelling, Compulsion, forcible, forcibly, Forcing, Obtruded, Obtruding). (various references)

Czech		vnucovat. (various references)

Farsi		متحمل شدن بر, مزاحم شدن (Annoy, Buttonhole, Disturb, Perturb), جسارت کردن , بدون تقاضاچیزی رامطرح کردن . (various references)

Finnish		tyrkyttää (force, impose, ply somebody with, press obtrude impose), tungetella (intrude, obtrude oneself). (various references)

French		s'imposer (obtrude oneself on smb.), imposer (obtrude smth. on smb.). (various references)

German		aufdrängen (force, force on, impose, impose on, intrusion, obtrusion, push on). (various references)

Greek		παρακινώ επίμονα, εισχωρώ οχληρώσ, επιβάλλω με το ζόρι, επιβάλλομαι οχληρώσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לפלוש (intrude, invade, squat, trespass), לכפות על. (various references)

Hungarian		tolakszik (to obtrude, to push oneself, to shoulder, to squash), rátukmál (to obtrude), elõtérbe hoz (highlight). (various references)

Indonesian		menonjolkan diri. (various references)

Italian		imporre (assert oneself, be called for, be successful, become popular, call for, enforce, fix, force, impose, impose oneself, intrude, lay down, levy, make, oblige, order, push, raise, stand out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		出過ぎる (to be too forward, to obtrude, to project or protrude too much). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ですぎる (to be too forward, to obtrude, to project or protrude too much). (various references)

Manx		seiy er oai (push forward, push on). (various references)

Pig Latin		obtrudeay

Portuguese		protesto de letra, proceder como intruso, intrometer-se (butt in, cut in, horn of plenty, interfere, intermeddle, intervene, it's a mess, meddle, monkey, nose, obtrude oneself, poke about, tamper, tamper with, thwart), introduzir (adhibit, immigration, induct, initiate, inject, insert, insinuatingly, introduce, intrude, lead off, let in, marsh fever, prelude, put in, thrust), impor-se. (various references)

Romanian		se vârî (meddle), se bãga (go in, meddle), a-şi impune. (various references)

Russian		навязывать (force upon, impose, inflict). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nametnuti (force upon, intrude, levy, put on). (various references)

Spanish		extender (carry, draw, draw up, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hold out, issue, lay, lay down, lay out, make bigger, make out, open, open out, open up, overblow, prolong, put forth, put out, renew, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch out, string out, unfold, unfurl, widen, write out), entrometerse (barge in, horn in, interfere, intrude, meddle, poke about, poke around). (various references)

Swedish		påtruga. (various references)

Thai		เข้าไปยุ่ง. (various references)

Turkish		zorla sokulmak (intrude), zorla kabul ettirmek (dictate, drub smth. into smb., push, ram smth. down smb.'s throat), zorla girmek (break in, break into, irrupt, storm), ısrarla ileri sürmek. (various references)

Ukranian		виставляти (imbed, put up, send in, set forth, show), висовувати (hang out, peep out, protrude, stick out), викидати (abort, belch, cast away, cast up, detrude, eject, scrap, throw out), нав'язувати (enforce, impose, intrude, thrust, wish on). (various references)

Welsh		ymwthio (push oneself), gwthio (push, shove, thrust). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	obtrudere. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obtrude": obtruded, obtruder, obtruders, obtrudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Obtrude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obstrude, obtruce, obtruse, obture, Ortrud. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "obtrude" (pronounced ubtruw"d)
4	-t r uw" d	construed, extrude, intrude, misconstrued, protrude.
3	-r uw" d	accrued, brewed, brood, crude, prude, rood, rude, screwed, shrewd.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: doubter, outbred, redoubt.
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-o-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: bruted, debtor, detour, redout, routed, toured.
	-2 letters: bored, brute, buret, buteo, debut, doter, doubt, orbed, outed, outer, outre, rebut, redub, robed, route, trode, trued, tubed, tuber, turbo, uredo.
	-3 letters: bedu, bode, bore, bort, bout, bred, brut, burd, bute, debt, doer, dore, dote, dour, drub, duet, dure, duro, euro, redo, robe, rode, rote, roue.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-o-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: doubters, obdurate, obtruded, obtruder, obtrudes, outbreed, redoubts, taboured, troubled, tuberoid.
	+2 letters: obtruders, obturated, outbarked, outbraved, outbreeds, outbribed, outburned, sodbuster, subeditor, tamboured.
	+3 letters: abductores, counterbid, earthbound, obdurately, objurgated, obstructed, outbragged, outbrawled, outrebound, rebuttoned, roundtable, sodbusters, subcordate, subeditors, subrogated, untroubled.
	+4 letters: beardtongue, boatbuilder, contributed, counterbade, counterbids, outbreeding, outnumbered, outrebounds, outthrobbed, redoubtable, redoubtably, roundtables, strikebound, subdirector, subordinate, thunderbolt, tuberculoid, underbought.
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