Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of intrude
nounintruding (plural intrudings)
plural intrudings
- intrusion
[…] he rose and adjusted his alarm-clock, so that it would emphatically repeat the hour of five. Then to bed again, and driving off all intrudings of thoughtfulness, and resolutely bending himself to slumber, he by-and-by fell into its […] arms.
1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveprojecting inward
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