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intruded

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(context geology English) intrusive. v (en-past of: intrude )

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Intrude \In*trude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intruded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Intruding .] To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude ...

Usage examples of intruded.

She was screaming her head off, rolling helplessly in an effort to get away from those tormenting fingers, when another voice intruded on them.

It scolded her throughout the operation, evidently angry that she had intruded on its territory.

Unbidden the thought intruded of asking Roper for help, and she flinched from the idea as if it had stung her.

Then another picture intruded, and the nausea changed to a moan of pain.

Dane intruded with sexual advances quite often, and there wasn’t anything the least sickening about them.

He deliberately intruded on it, letting his thigh brush hers, some­times leaning so that his big shoulders crowded her, occasionally putting his hand on her bare arm.

Lee and Cynthia, Jason and June, and her mom and dad all approached a bit warily, as if afraid they had intruded on a romantic getaway.

He had been Fleet, had enlisted as a boy just qualified, and worked his way rating by rating, sometimes slipping back when a good brawl intruded on common sense, but mostly rising steadily through the ranks as a good spacer could.

Afra had seen her about the station during the last days of the Rowan's confinement but had purposely not intruded upon her.

Killa said, holding her light steady on the opposite wall where the liquid opal had intruded as well.

His expressive and large brown eyes were almost sad, though his perfectly shaped lips curved in an infinitely gentle smile — as if, the thought intruded on Sallah’s delight in her progress, he did not wish to frighten her.

How wonderful was Lessa, the thought intruded into Lessa's reflections, how pretty, how kind, how thoughtful, how brave and clever!

That serenely symmetrical cone had drawn him, sick and fevered, back to the Cove, had dominated his waking hours and intruded with nightmarish drama into his dreams.

Here was the man who had brought her to a foreign land where she could scarcely understand the simplest of greetings, and had boarishly intruded upon her bath to seek his revenge.

Several more huge forms intruded into her meager space, and she glanced around in sudden apprehension, realizing that she was blocked in on all sides by men who towered well above her.