intrude

present singular third person intrudes · participle present intruding · participle past intruded · past intruded

1. intransitiveTo thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.

   The noise of machinery intruded on an otherwise quiet morning.

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   to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another

   Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them.

   1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC

   An American "SR-71" high-speed and high-altitude reconnaissance plane intruded 33 miles within the military security line east of Kosong County of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yesterday for espionage and hostile acts, according to KCNA.

   1979 September 24 [1979 September 21], “American Plane Intrudes Into Airspace of DPRK”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 186, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC International Affairs; United States, page B 4

   Synonyms: barge in

2. transitiveTo force in.