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To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back
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  1. To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back
  2. (Idiomatic) Especially, to dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner.
  3. To intrude or interrupt.
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To force (oneself or one's thoughts) upon others without being asked or welcomed
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  1. To force (oneself or one's thoughts) upon others without being asked or welcomed
  2. To put or force in inappropriately, especially without invitation, fitness, or permission:
  3. To intrude oneself or itself
Find another word for obtrude. In this page you can discover 4 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for obtrude, like: cut in, horn in, intrude and enter.

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  • Unwilling to obtrude himself on the princess, Rostov did not go back to the house but remained in the village awaiting her departure.

  • In 1835 he visited the Lakes, and saw much of Hartley Coleridge, but would not "obtrude on the great man at Rydal," although "Wordsworth was hospitably disposed."

  • The metaphysical conception of the monads, each of which is the universe in nuce, presents insuperable difficulties when the connexion or interdependence of the monads is in question, and these difficulties obtrude themselves when the attempt is made to work out a consistent doctrine of cognition.

  • The rear sight should not obtrude anymore than necessary above the weapon itself.

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