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obtruded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obtrude \Ob*trude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obtruded, p. pr. & vb. n. Obtruding.] [L. obtrudere, obtrusum; ob (see Ob-) + trudere to thrust. See Threat.]
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To thrust impertinently; to present to a person without warrant or solicitation; as, to obtrude one's self upon a company; to obtrude one's opinion on another.
The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or no.
--Lock. To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: obtrude)
Usage examples of "obtruded".
Occasionally the thought obtruded itself that possibly at some later day Tarzan would regret his magnanimity, and claim his rights.
Number Thirteen did not know, of course, but the idea obtruded itself, and had sufficient weight to cause him to remain seated upon the edge of the bed meditating upon the act he contemplated.
Instinctively she shrank from contact with the man in whose arms she had been carried without a trace of repugnance until the thought obtruded itself that he might be the creature of her father's mad experimentation, to whose arms she had been doomed by the insane obsession of her parent.