Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: intrude
IPA transcription: [,ɪntɹ'ud]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: intrude, irrupt
    Meaning: enter uninvited; "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room"
  • Synonyms: trespass, intrude
    Meaning: enter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!"
Usage examples
  • "I'm not one to intrude where I'm not wanted.
  • It was a nice, remote, bosky place where no prowling grown-up would be likely to intrude.
  • 'You mustn't please let me intrude upon you,' he said, 'but really I am very interested in this queer old place.
  • I am sorry to intrude, but you heard how earnestly Holmes insisted that I should not leave you, and especially that you should not go alone upon the moor."
  • "So it happens that when a man runs for the Presidency the persons who intrude upon his private life, as you put it, are conferring a real service upon their fellow-citizens.
  • Before beginning our critical statement, let us recall some of the results of our previous analyses which here intrude themselves, to use the ambitious language of Kant, as the prolegomena to every future solution which claims the title of science.
  • Such delightful laziness could brook no interference for the first days of their arrival, and it was not until Peggy McNutt ventured over on Monday morning for a settlement with Mr. Merrick that any from the little world around them dared intrude upon the dwellers at the Wegg farm.
  • But intrude not violently upon man, leave him alone in his somnambulism, and he kicks out from under his feet the ladder of life up which he has climbed, constitutes himself the centre of the universe, dreams sordidly about his own particular god, and maunders metaphysically about his own blessed immortality.