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Stumbling into ruins - trespass?
Answer for the clue "Stumbling into ruins - trespass? ", 9 letters:
intrusion
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Word definitions for intrusion in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French intrusion (14c.), from Medieval Latin intrusionem (nominative intrusio ) "a thrusting in," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin intrudere , from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + trudere "to thrust, push" (see extrusion ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE basic ▪ Huntly and - basic to ultrabasic intrusions of Arthrath Caledonian age intruding pyritic and graphitic Dalradian metasediments. igneous ▪ The island was uplifted and igneous intrusions took place. ■ NOUN ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts" [syn: invasion , encroachment ] entrance by force or without permission or welcome the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier ...
Usage examples of intrusion.
John Barleycorn was going to regret his intrusion into my family and my city.
Dressed only in her undertunic, Cassandra jumped at the intrusion, wrapping her arms about herself.
But the procedures stated explicitly that the Elders were not to be alerted in cases of suspected intrusion, probably because every such incident for the past hundred cyclics had turned out to be a false alarm.
But they were paying a lot of money to the straight Dagwood Bumstead techies, some of them working for the FCIC, to search for traces of intrusion.
It was a violence, a terrible intrusion in the succession of moments, a clot in diachrony, and with the dumb arrogance of its existence it paid the outrage of ontology no mind.
It was gratifying to see that the dogs knew instinctively what was wanted of them: nobody could come near without the dogs warning their handlers of an intrusion.
He could have learned of this from messages being sent by United Airlines to the cockpits of its transcontinental flights, including Flight 93, warning of cockpit intrusion and telling of the New York attacks.
It was home base for the police force which protected the Fuzzies and maintained surveillance of their territory against Terran intrusion.
I confess to you that I have deliberately courted the peerage, because of its influence upon the reins of government, to protect my interests against such intrusion and exposure.
Had she not destroyed the young boy, the American, in her fury at his intrusion, the coitus interruptus of her vision on the road?
But the intrusion of Jukes upon the situation at that moment was rather awkward for X.
On the same basis that governed Bracy, Sleeper was drawing a gun, to do his share in keeping Mayberry and Chalmody free from intrusion!
This secretion serves the double purpose of moistening the outer surface of the membrana tympani, or ear-drum, and, by its strong odor, of preventing the intrusion of insects.
They could hear ovenbirds and protho-notary warblers singing in the woods, but apart from that the air was curiously still, as if their intrusion into the grounds of Le Reposoir had been noticed by nature at large, and a general breath was being held until they were discovered.
Once in place, it protects against intrusions from without, like a shell.