Intrude vs Protrude - What's the difference?
intrude | protrude |
To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.
* I. Watts
To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
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To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
* Thomson
As verbs the difference between intrude and protrude
is that intrude is to thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass while protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.intrude
English
Verb
(intrud)- to intrude''' on families at unseasonable hours; to '''intrude on the lands of another
- Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them.
Derived terms
* intruder * intrusionSee also
* invadeAnagrams
* untriedprotrude
English
Verb
(protrud)- Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes .
- (John Locke)
- When Spring protrudes the bursting gems.
