intertrude

present singular third person intertrudes · participle present intertruding · participle past intertruded · past intertruded

1. To intrude; To force or thrust into

   And, contradiction, like a discord breaking on the ear, Wilt intertrude its hateful presence, hoot, deny and jeer.

   1912, Seymour Supercern, Truth Will Out: An Emergence from Chaos and Subterfuge Into Light and Reality

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   Then seek, amongst the multitude Of lovers that dare to intertrude Into your favours, One that may Love for an age, and not a day;

   1650, The Academy of Complements. Wherein Ladyes, Gentlewomen, Schollers, and Strangers, may accommodate their Courtly practice with gentile Ceremonies, Complement all amorous high expressions, and Formes of speaking or writing of Letters most in Fashion

   Other rocks intertrude irregularly in the form of beds and veins, as serpentine, soapstone, rensselaerite, granite and primitive limestone.

   1838, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

   Snatches of other voices seemed often to intertrude themselves in the parley; and your loyal effort not to overhear these was complicated by your fear of missing what Eva might be twittering.

   1922, Sir Max Beerbohm, A Christmas Garland, page 5