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obtrude

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Is obtrude a Scrabble word?

Yes, obtrude is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of obtrude?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.Examples: "By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude."; "It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]"; "The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England."transitive

2. (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into).Examples: "How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!—They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them!"; "Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks."; "Occasionally the thought obtruded itself that possibly at some later day Tarzan would regret his magnanimity, and claim his rights."intransitive

3. (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.Examples: "She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail."; "This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?""; "As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself."reflexive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "obtrude"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "obtrude"?

Scrabble
10 points
O1
B3
T1
R1
U1
D2
E1
Words With Friends
12 points
O1
B4
T1
R1
U2
D2
E1

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