Associations to the word «Obtrude»
Noun
- Notice
- Consciousness
- Sympathy
- Recollection
- Reader
- Grief
- Surrounding
- Reflection
- Paying
- Opinion
- Remark
- Consideration
- Thought
- Mind
- Attention
- Sentiment
- Confidence
- Imagination
- Wish
- Inquiry
- Memory
- But
- Anxiety
- Judgment
- Consequence
- Feeling
- Suggestion
- Dream
- Nature
- Idea
- Observation
- Vision
- Passion
- Taste
- Doubt
- Fate
- Circumstance
- Matter
- Self
- Question
- Presence
- Principle
- View
- Manner
- Subject
- Fact
- Personality
- Affair
- Truth
- Author
- Occasion
- Moment
- Organ
- Silence
- Ear
Adjective
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Wiktionary
OBTRUDE, verb. (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area. [from 16th c.]
OBTRUDE, verb. (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into). [from 16th c.]
OBTRUDE, verb. (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in. [from 17th c.]
Dictionary definition
OBTRUDE, verb. Push to thrust outward.
OBTRUDE, verb. Thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.