protrude
verb /prəˈtruːd/
/prəʊˈtruːd/
[intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they protrude | /prəˈtruːd/ /prəʊˈtruːd/ |
| he / she / it protrudes | /prəˈtruːdz/ /prəʊˈtruːdz/ |
| past simple protruded | /prəˈtruːdɪd/ /prəʊˈtruːdɪd/ |
| past participle protruded | /prəˈtruːdɪd/ /prəʊˈtruːdɪd/ |
| -ing form protruding | /prəˈtruːdɪŋ/ /prəʊˈtruːdɪŋ/ |
- to stick out from a place or a surface
- protruding teeth
- protrude from something He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the wall.
Extra Examples- One or two chairs protruded into the central aisle.
- The tip of the envelope was just protruding from her bag.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProtrude is used with these nouns as the subject:- knife
- lip
- stomach
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘thrust something forward or onward’): from Latin protrudere, from pro- ‘forward, out’ + trudere ‘to thrust’.