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protrude

UK/pɹəˈtɹuːd/US/pɹəˈtɹud/
verbC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,536 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: protruding, protrudes, protruded

To protrude is to stick out beyond a surface. A nail protruding, protruding from the wall, let it protrude.

It is a neutral technical word and belongs to descriptions of injuries, machinery and building faults. The Latin means to thrust forward, from the same root as intrude and extrude.

Definitions of protrude

  1. 1verbprotrudeTo stick out beyond a surface.C2

    “His wallet protruded from his back pocket, an easy target for thieves.”

protrude is a sticking out.

Where it comes from

Latin protrudere means to thrust forward, from pro plus trudere, to thrust.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *pro- — forward; toward

  2. Latin

    prōtrūdere

  3. English, today

    protrude

Built from

  • prōtrūdō · Latin — to push or thrust forwards; to protrude
  • trūdō · Latin — to push, shove, thrust

Latin prōtrūdere, the of prōtrūdō (“to push or thrust forwards; to protrude”), from prō- (“denoting a forward direction or movement”) (from Proto-Indo-European pro- (“forward; toward”)) + trūdō (“to push, shove, thrust”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European trewd- (“to push, thrust”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

protrude in the wild

  • The rays from both Kepler and Copernicus protrude into the mare.

    Mare Insularum

  • The remains of a small crater rim protrude near the northeast wall.

    Abel (crater)

  • The higher peaks of the underlying mountain rock that protrude through the icefields are known as nunataks.

    Ice field

  • Like the sill, a sill pan will usually be inclined and protrude from the wall.

    Windowsill

  • Some of the nuclear cells surrounding the embryo sac start dividing and protrude into the embryo sac and develop into embryos.

    Monoembryony

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the trūdō family

abstruseprotrudeobtrusive

protrude — used about once every 54,060 pages · #14,536 · point at the bar for the others