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Word Meanings - INTRUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where

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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. Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where I am graced. Shak. Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them. I. Watts.

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  • FORCE
    To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
  • ENCROACHER
    One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
  • INVADE
    1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter
  • THRUSTING
    The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
  • INFRINGER
    One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
  • INVADER
    One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
  • TRANSGRESSIVE
    Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -
  • FORCEPS
    The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
  • TRANSGRESS
    1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. Dryden. 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Milton. 3. To
  • FORCEFUL
    Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
  • INFRINGE
    1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To
  • FORCEMENT
    The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
  • INTERFERE
    To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2. (more info) between + OF. ferir to strike, F. férir, fr. L. ferire. 1. To come in collision; to
  • FORCED
    Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more
  • INTRUDE
    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. Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where
  • TRANSGRESSIVELY
    In a transgressive manner Adam, perhaps, . . . from the transgressive infirmities of himself, might have erred alone. Sir T. Browne.
  • OBTRUDE
    1. To thrust impertinently; to present without warrant or solicitation; as, to obtrude one's self upon a company. The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or no. Lock. 2. To offer with unreasonable
  • ENCROACHINGLY
    By way of encroachment.
  • TRANSGRESSOR
    One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner. The way of transgressors is hard. Prov. xiii. 15.
  • ENCROACHMENT
    An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another. (more info) 1. The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil
  • REINFORCEMENT
    See REëNFORCEMENT
  • DEFORCEOR
    See DEFORCIANT
  • INTRANSGRESSIBLE
    Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. Holland.
  • DEFORCE
    To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
  • REENFORCE
    To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
  • OVERFORCE
    Excessive force; violence.
  • AFFORCE
    To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.
  • REENFORCEMENT
    1. The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced. 2. That which reënforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.

 

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