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/əbˈtɹuːd/ · verb
(transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area..
By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.
It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]
The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.
How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!—They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them!
Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.
Occasionally the thought obtruded itself that possibly at some later day Tarzan would regret his magnanimity, and claim his rights.
It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life.
In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.
Use obtrude when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Obtrude means (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area..
Common synonyms include intrude, push out, thrust out.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.
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