protrude

[proh-trood, pruh-]

verb (used without object)

protruded, protruding 

1. to project.

   Synonyms: belly, swell, bulge

verb (used with object)

protruded, protruding 

1. to thrust forward; cause to project.

protrude

/ prəˈtruːd /

verb

1. to thrust or cause to thrust forwards or outwards

2. to project or cause to project from or as if from a surface

Other Word Forms

• protrudable adjective
• protrudent adjective
• protrusible adjective
• unprotruded adjective
• unprotrudent adjective
• unprotrusible adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of protrude¹

First recorded in 1610–20; from Latin prōtrūdere “to thrust forward,” equivalent to prō- pro- ¹ + trūdere “to thrust”

Word History and Origins

Origin of protrude¹

C17: from Latin, from _pro- ² + trudere to thrust

Example Sentences

After weeks of the world seeing images of starving children, with distended stomachs and protruding bones, many will feel like the signs that a famine was imminent were a long time coming.

From BBC

The other banned advert was for a shirt and the model was said to be in a position that made "protruding" collarbones a "focal feature" of the advert.

From BBC

Anglers could buy fishing lures molded in the shape of a Black baby protruding from an alligator’s mouth.

From Los Angeles Times

We’d spend the first minutes observing the given artwork in silence, and then share what we noticed, what caught our eye: a protruding vein on a hand, a curled toe, an open door.

From Los Angeles Times

These cracks in the Earth turn the seafloor into a bright orange world of protruding rocks and gas clouds.

From BBC

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