Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to obtrude
Participle: obtruded
Gerund: obtruding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | obtrude |
| you | obtrude |
| he;she;it | obtrudes |
| we | obtrude |
| you | obtrude |
| they | obtrude |
Perfect
| I | have obtruded |
| you | have obtruded |
| he;she;it | has obtruded |
| we | have obtruded |
| you | have obtruded |
| they | have obtruded |
Past
| I | obtruded |
| you | obtruded |
| he;she;it | obtruded |
| we | obtruded |
| you | obtruded |
| they | obtruded |
Pluperfect
| I | had obtruded |
| you | had obtruded |
| he;she;it | had obtruded |
| we | had obtruded |
| you | had obtruded |
| they | had obtruded |
Future
| I | will obtrude |
| you | will obtrude |
| he;she;it | will obtrude |
| we | will obtrude |
| you | will obtrude |
| they | will obtrude |
Future Perfect
| I | will have obtruded |
| you | will have obtruded |
| he;she;it | will have obtruded |
| we | will have obtruded |
| you | will have obtruded |
| they | will have obtruded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | obtrude |
| you | obtrude |
| he;she;it | obtrude |
| we | obtrude |
| you | obtrude |
| they | obtrude |
Perfect
| I | have obtruded |
| you | have obtruded |
| he;she;it | have obtruded |
| we | have obtruded |
| you | have obtruded |
| they | have obtruded |
Imperfect
| I | obtruded |
| you | obtruded |
| he;she;it | obtruded |
| we | obtruded |
| you | obtruded |
| they | obtruded |
Pluperfect
| I | had obtruded |
| you | had obtruded |
| he;she;it | had obtruded |
| we | had obtruded |
| you | had obtruded |
| they | had obtruded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would obtrude |
| you | would obtrude |
| he;she;it | would obtrude |
| we | would obtrude |
| you | would obtrude |
| they | would obtrude |
Perfect
| I | would have obtruded |
| you | would have obtruded |
| he;she;it | would have obtruded |
| we | would have obtruded |
| you | would have obtruded |
| they | would have obtruded |
Imperative
| you | obtrude |
| we | Let's obtrude |
| you | obtrude |
Verbs conjugated like 'obtrude'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'obtrude'
abstrude,
detrude,
extrude,
intrude,
obtuse,
outrede,
outride,
outrule,
retrude,
subtrude,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1555, from L.
obtrudere "thrust into, press upon," from
ob "toward" +
trudere "to thrust," from PIE base
*treud- "to squeeze" (cf. O.E.
þreotan "to press, afflict, threaten;" see threat).
2. From Latin obtrūdō (“thrust off or against”), from ob- (“ob-”) + trūdō (“thrust”). See: Latin '
obtrūdō'.
Sample Sentences
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By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude. [1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:]
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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 […] [1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:]
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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. [2007 July 16, Andrew Martin, The Guardian:]
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How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!—They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them! [1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 18:]
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Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks. [1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:]
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Occasionally the thought obtruded itself that possibly at some later day Tarzan would regret his magnanimity, and claim his rights. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 99:]
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It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life. [1991, Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre:]
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In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude. [2010 August 7, Colin Greenland, The Guardian:]
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She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail. [1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, volume II:]
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This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?" [2004 January 13, Marc Abrahams, The Guardian:]
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As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself. [2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 121:]