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protrude
/ prəˈtruːd /
verb
- to thrust or cause to thrust forwards or outwards
- to project or cause to project from or as if from a surface
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Derived Forms
- proˈtrudable, adjective
- proˈtrudent, adjective
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Other Words From
- pro·trud·ent adjective
- pro·tru·si·ble [proh-, troo, -s, uh, -b, uh, l, -z, uh, -, pr, uh, -], pro·trud·a·ble adjective
- un·pro·trud·ed adjective
- un·pro·trud·ent adjective
- un·pro·tru·si·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of protrude1
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Example Sentences
Caribou antlers protrude from the wood paneling on the walls with hollow gift-wrapped presents dangling from the dried bone.
Thus one saw only their heads which seemed to protrude from the clayey earth and were almost as yellow, with their closed eyes.
In this way all danger of causing the broken bones to protrude and thus "compounding" the fracture is also avoided.
Pines had grown in the swamp, and their stumps still protrude into or above the moss.
From it I could just distinguish through the fog a hand protrude, and throw something out—cigar-end?
The formation of the country is tertiary, resting on porphyry and quartz, ridges of which often protrude through the surface.
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