Protrude

//pɹəˈtɹuːd// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out. intransitive

    "The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing."

  2. 2
    swell or protrude outwards wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to extend from a surface or boundary; to cause to stick out. transitive

    "With thoſe that ſtretcht along the Weſtern Coaſt; / To whom the old Creonian Towns were loſt, / Where high Epidium midſt th' Hibernian Waves, / Protrudes his Head, and all their Monſters braves."

  4. 4
    bulge outward wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause to extend from a surface or boundary; to cause to stick out.; To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth. transitive

    "He, when young Spring protrudes the bursting gems, / Marks the first bud, and sucks the healthful gale / Into his freshen'd soul; […]"

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  1. 6
    extend out or project in space wordnet
  2. 7
    To thrust forward; to drive or force along. obsolete, transitive

    "1566, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, London: Richard Tottell and William Jones, Volume 1, The .xlj. Nouell, […] ye people standyng round about […] cried out, incontinently for the deliuerie of the Ladie, & for vengeaunce to be taken of hym, whiche so wickedly had protruded her into that daunger:"

Etymology

From Latin prōtrūdō, prōtrūdere.

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