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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•tru•sion /ɪnˈtruʒən/USA pronunciation n. - an act or instance of intruding: [uncountable]She hated the intrusion into her private life.[countable]The press made intrusions into his private life.
in•tru•sive /ɪnˈtrusɪv/USA pronunciation adj.: an intrusive question. in•tru•sive•ly, adv. in•tru•sive•ness, n. [uncountable]See -trude-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•tru•sion (in tro̅o̅′zhən),USA pronunciation n. - an act or instance of intruding.
- the state of being intruded.
- Law
- an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property.
- a wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, made before the remainderman or reversioner has entered.
- Geology
- emplacement of molten rock in preexisting rock.
- plutonic rock emplaced in this manner.
- a process analogous to magmatic intrusion, as the injection of a plug of salt into sedimentary rocks.
- the matter forced in.
- s) + -iōn- -ion
- Medieval Latin intrūsiōn- (stem of intrūsiō), equivalent. to Latin intrūs(us), past participle of intrūdere to intrude (equivalent. to intrūd- v.stem + -tus past participle suffix, with dt
- Middle English 1250–1300
in•tru′sion•al, adj. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: intrusion /ɪnˈtruːʒən/ n - the act or an instance of intruding; an unwelcome visit, interjection, etc: an intrusion on one's privacy
- the movement of magma from within the earth's crust into spaces in the overlying strata to form igneous rock
- any igneous rock formed in this way
- an unlawful entry onto land by a stranger after determination of a particular estate of freehold and before the remainderman or reversioner has made entry
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