What does "protrude" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "protrude"?

Common synonyms include: bulge, jut, jut, project, stick out, arise.

//pɹəˈtɹuːd// verb

verb ·Moderate ·College level

Verb

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."
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swell or protrude outwards wordnet
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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."
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bulge outward wordnet
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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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extend out or project in space wordnet
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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:"