What's the difference between obtrude and obtruded?

Obtrude


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To thrust impertinently; to present without warrant or solicitation; as, to obtrude one's self upon a company.
  • (v. t.) To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will.
  • (v. i.) To thrust one's self upon a company or upon attention; to intrude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Kupffer cells were distended by lipid and obtruded on the sinusoidal lumen; similar changes were seen in the macrophages of the red pulp and marginal zone of the spleen.
  • (2) While referral was related to severity of psychiatric illness and previous psychiatric illness, the degree to which the psychiatric illness obtruded or created problems in management appeared more crucial in determining referral.
  • (3) Felodipine might cause a retarded elimination of desmethyldiazepam, possibly by obtruding the formation of oxazepam.
  • (4) A vigorous, humorous tone asserts itself at the outset of Walden: I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though they did not appear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent.

Obtruded


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Obtrude

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Kupffer cells were distended by lipid and obtruded on the sinusoidal lumen; similar changes were seen in the macrophages of the red pulp and marginal zone of the spleen.
  • (2) While referral was related to severity of psychiatric illness and previous psychiatric illness, the degree to which the psychiatric illness obtruded or created problems in management appeared more crucial in determining referral.
  • (3) Felodipine might cause a retarded elimination of desmethyldiazepam, possibly by obtruding the formation of oxazepam.
  • (4) A vigorous, humorous tone asserts itself at the outset of Walden: I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though they did not appear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent.

Words possibly related to "obtrude"

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