obtrude

Other forms of obtrude

past tense

obtruded·

present participle

obtruding·

third person

obtrudes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obtrude

What does obtrude mean?

obtrude means "push to thrust outward". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obtrude?

obtrude has 2 syllables: ob-trude. The stress falls on "trude". In IPA it is /əbˈtɹud/.

What is another word for obtrude?

Close synonyms include push out, thrust out, intrude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is obtrude a common word?

obtrude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with obtrude?

2 words rhyme with obtrude. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.