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Webster 1913 Edition
Protrude
Pro-trude′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Protruded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Protruding
.] 1.
To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
Locke.
2.
To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
When . . . Spring
protrudes
the bursting gems. Thomson.
Pro-trude′
,Verb.
I.
To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond a limit; to project.
The parts
protrude
beyond the skin. Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Protrude
PROTRU'DE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To thrust forward; to drive or force along; as food protruded from the stomach into the intestine.2.
To thrust out, as from confinement. The contents of the abdomen are protruded in hernia.PROTRU'DE
,Verb.
I.
The parts protrude beyond the skin.
Definition 2024
protrude
protrude
English
Verb
protrude (third-person singular simple present protrudes, present participle protruding, simple past and past participle protruded)
- To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
- Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5
- To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Locke to this entry?)
- To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
- Thomson
- When […] Spring protrudes the bursting gems.
- Thomson
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
to extend from
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