Intrude
English Meaning
To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.
- To put or force in inappropriately, especially without invitation, fitness, or permission: intruded opinion into a factual report.
- Geology To thrust (molten rock) into preexisting rock.
- To come in rudely or inappropriately; enter as an improper or unwanted element: "Unpleasant realities have intruded on [his] presidential dreams” ( Alexander Stille).
