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Definizione monolingua


obtrude


Verb

obtrude (third-person singular simple present obtrudes, present participle obtruding, simple past and past participle obtruded)


  1. (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area. [from 16th c.]
    • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
      By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.
    • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:
      It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness [...].
    • 2007, Andrew Martin, The Guardian, 16 Jul 2007:
      The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether its a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.
  2. (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into). [from 16th c.]
    • 1991, Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre:
      It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretarys life.
    • 2010, Colin Greenland, The Guardian, 7 Aug 2010:
      In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.
  3. (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in. [from 17th c.]
    • 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, vol II:
      She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.
    • 2004, Marc Abrahams, The Guardian, 13 Jan 2004:
      This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called ""What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?""
    • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 121:
      As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself.

Definizione dizionario obtrude


imporre

Altri significati:
  intransitive
  transitive
  (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in. [from 17th c.]
  (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area. [from 16th c.]
  reflexive
  (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into). [from 16th c.]
  project or protrude too much

Traduzione obtrude


imporre

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