Outstretch vs Protrude - What's the difference?
outstretch | protrude |
To extend by stretching
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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.
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As verbs the difference between outstretch and protrude
is that outstretch is to extend by stretching while protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.outstretch
English
Verb
- She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
Anagrams
*protrude
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.