obtrude

UK /əbˈtɹuːd/ US /əbˈtɹuːd/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.

By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.

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 […]

2

To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into).

How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!—They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them!

Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.

3

To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.

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.

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?"

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