contrude

present singular third person contrudes · participle present contruding · participle past contruded · past contruded

1. intransitiveraretransitivedentistryto crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)

   She now needed braces, as her teeth were contruded.

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   Were it not for this attachment on the bow, the force of the elastic upon the cuspid over which it would pass would contrude it, unless it was secured to the bow with a band attachment.

   1635, Calvin Case, A Practical Treatise on the Technics and Principles of Dental Orthopedia and Prosthetic Correction of Cleft Palate

   1. intransitiveraretransitivedentistryto create an abnormal inward curve of any portion of the line of the dental arch
2. intransitivetransitivegeographyto cause a downward or inward curve line of the strata
3. intransitiveraretransitiveto motivate; to influence

   Nothing contrudes him to behave!

4. intransitivetransitiveto envisage; to imagine

   Contrude you were the king.

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   Contrude the spot must be one where the tide in the ordinary and regular coul of things flove and reflors. Since th peace in question is not affected I ordinary tides, the right of the purk CASE stated by justices under 20 & 21 Vict. c. 43, the facts of which ofish here were in substance as follows. rended for by the ay

   1888, John Chipman Gray, Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property: Volume 2

5. intransitiveobsoletetransitiveto thrust or crowd together; to cram

   We were too tired to take the stairs and decided to contrude ourselves into the small elevator.

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   If beaſts and Birds ſo gratefull be; What then Shall we imagine of theſe thankleſſ Men, But, That there's a Ghinnon to contrude All guilty of ſuch baſe ingratitude?

   1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells: Their Names, Orders and Offices"

   3. Flame, if it be much compressed and straightened, is extinguished; as we may see in a candle having a glass cast over it, for the air being dilated by the heat doth contrude and thrust together the flame, and so lesseneth it, and in the end extinguisheth it; and fires on hearths will not flame, if the fuel be thrust close together, without any space for the flame to break forth.

   1860, Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: Volume 14