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Protruding

Protrude \Pro*trude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Protruded; p. pr. & vb. n. Protruding.] [L. protrudere, protrusum; pro forward + trudere to thrust. See Threat.]

  1. To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
    --Locke.

  2. To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.

    When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems.
    --Thomson.

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protruding

vb. (present participle of protrude English)

WordNet
protruding

adj. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck" [syn: jutting, projected, projecting, sticking(p), sticking out(p)]

Usage examples of "protruding".

He was about four feet in height, but oddly proportioned, with a bulging head and a small face and a small lower jaw and receding chin, protruding eyeballs and a huge beaklike nose.

Carmichael had over a dozen biros protruding from his back, and lay sprawled on the floor beneath his desk.

Altara to finish her discussion with the blond Norland cargo-master, he studied the side paddle wheels, protruding another five cubits from the gently rounded midships curve of the trader, forward of the funnels.

He went out to End four eunuchs waiting for him, their leader a big, nasty-looking fellow with a large protruding belly and puffed-out chest.

Folsom Man always hollowed the face of his lance points by cutting out channel flakes, and why he took the added trouble of making them with ears protruding from the base.

Protruding from the slice was a glasslike tube, one end embedded through his sweater and into his skin at a downward angle.

All around the foot of the huge, overstuffed bed were slumbering female gnolls, their long, knobby, fur-covered legs protruding awkwardly from garish print wraps.

He gnawed used matches as he worked and, occasionally emerging to cross in front of the veranda to the side door of the villa, would grin at Adam a macabre grin of filbert teeth and matchsticks protruding between them like the limbs of tiny prey.

These were uncompromising lumps of hard, ancient sandstone protruding from the flat desert, extensively carved by megayears of water flows.

My thoughts morphed, in succession, from anxiety to despair, to anger, to frustration, and in my frustration I knelt down and picked up a fallen branch from the ground, walked to the nearest tree, and eyed a strange, protruding knob that stuck out from the trunk.

The girls shrieked and began dancing unashamedly, their young bodies sliding against the thin nightdresses, their breasts protruding.

Beneath him, near the base of the growth, the protruding nodules that had provided precarious footing for his ascent were inflating alarmingly, like so many infected pustules on the skin of a dermatically challenged giant.

As I saw those sensual lips shape and peeked at those hairless bare tails protruding from the too-brief skirts, I felt that I was gazing at something shockingly lewd.

Great tongues of flame undulated eerily, lighting up the cavernous interior, and there in front of Kiyomori towered an image of the Tengu Demon, a spike protruding from either eye.

Willibrod spun backward and slammed into the tent. Canvas ripped as the frame splintered, but he flailed and righted himself, still standing despite the arrow protruding from the center of his chest.