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protrude

Best crossword clue

"Extend outward"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /pɹəˈtɹuːd/Part of speech verbSorted deoprrtuStarts with PEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. swell or protrude outwards

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin prōtrūdere, the present active infinitive of prōtrūdō (“to push or thrust forwards; to protrude”), from prō- (“prefix denoting a forward direction or movement”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“forward; toward”)) + trūdō (“to push, shove, thrust”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to push, thrust”)).

Used in a sentence

  • With thoſe that ſtretcht along the Weſtern Coaſt; / To whom the old Creonian Towns were loſt, / Where high Epidium midſt th' Hibernian Waves, / Protrudes his Head, and all their Monſters braves.
  • He, when young Spring protrudes the burſting gems, / Marks the firſt bud, and ſucks the healthful gale / Into his freſhen'd ſoul; […]
  • Before me soared the great promontory of Penmaen Mawr, protruding itself into the sea […]

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