Dictionary entry

Intrude

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐trude″ (?), v. i. [L. intrudere, intrusum; pref. in- in + trudere to thrust, akin to E. threat. See Threat.] To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.

Thy wit wants edge

And manners, to intrude where I am graced. Shak.

Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them. I. Watts.