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/proʊtrˈudɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Protrude v. t. (past & past part. protruded; pres. part. protruding)

To thrust forward; to drive or force along.

To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth. "When... Spring protrudes the bursting gems."

Protrude v. i. To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond a limit; to project. "The parts protrude beyond the skin."

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Etymology of 'Protruding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Protruding" Quotes from Famous Books

... retreat, the by-paths of the forest intermediate were such as the macadamized and locomotive imagination of the present day cannot encompass. A backwoodsman, laden with his axe, wading here, ploutering there, stumbling over rotted trees, protruding stumps, a bit of half-submerged corduroy road for one short space, then an adhesive clay bank, then a mile or two or more of black muck swamp, may, possibly,—clay-clogged and footsore, and with much pain in the small of his back,—find himself at sundown at the foot of ...

— Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. - A Drama. And Other Poems. • Sarah Anne Curzon

... The lady smiled in a decidedly disagreeable manner. I am not timid, but I would rather write a vaudeville in three acts than to be obliged to make a declaration to her if she had that impish smile on her lips. She has a way of protruding her under lip-ugh! do you know you are terribly slender? Will you let me cut the band of your trousers? I never could dance with my stomach compressed ...

— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard

... as a leaf screen woven for the occasion hid the lower part of his frame and left the protruding head visible as he leaned forward, standing on a log ...

— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams

... the ascent is made in jumps, the legs accordingly not embracing the tree as, much as is the case with us. In swimming they throw their arms ahead from one side to another. They point with the open hand or by protruding the lips and raising the head at the same time in the desired direction. Like the Mexicans they beckon with their hands by making ...

— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... carry the tale to barracks where it might be expected to produce action. He was a Bengali babu, bare of leg and fat of paunch, who had enough imagination to conceive of a regiment in receipt of the news, and the mental picture so appealed to him that he held his protruding stomach in both hands while he ran down-street like a landslide, his mouth agape and his eyes all ...

— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy

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