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Definition

to stick out, attract more attention than desired, or impose on others

When I try to study, she keeps obtruding into my thoughts.

obtruding = attracting more attention than desired

An antenna obtrudes from the top.

obtrudes = sticks out

Worry about missing the deadline obtrudes and slows progress.

obtrudes = attracts more attention than desired

— They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them!
Jane Austen -- Emma
Everywhere it obtrudes its mechanism, its activity, its dreary exigencies and vanity between the ideal and the real, between orchestra and ear.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Why had he come obtruding his life into hers, hers that might have been whole enough without him?
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
The larger, ragged, and fantastic branches still obtruded themselves abroad, while the white and hoary trunk stood naked and tempest-riven.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
"Miss Summerson," said Mr. Woodcourt, "if without obtruding myself on your confidence I may remain near you, pray let me do so."
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
The knitting old woman with the cat obtruded herself upon my memory as a most improper person to be sitting at the other end of such an affair.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
We have ever been far from wishing to obtrude ourselves on anyone.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
Being courteous folk, they had not obtruded themselves overnight by presence, word, or gesture.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
And those lips which are— well, I mustn't let my carnal lusts obtrude.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Unwilling to obtrude himself on the princess, Rostov did not go back to the house but remained in the village awaiting her departure.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Nor will I inquire whether Mr Clennam did, at any time, obtrude himself on—ha—my society.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don't believe), and obtruded himself on public notice.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
He obtruded himself upon us in the first instance.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Mrs Danvers never obtruded herself, but I was aware of her continually.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

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