Usually means: Forcing oneself or something forward.
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  1. obtruding: Merriam-Webster
  2. obtruding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. obtruding: Vocabulary.com
  4. obtruding: Wordnik
  5. obtruding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. obtruding: Wiktionary
  7. Obtruding, obtruding: Dictionary.com
  8. Obtruding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Obtruding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. obtruding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. obtruding: FreeDictionary.org
  12. obtruding: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. obtruding: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  An obtrusion; the act of something that obtrudes.

Similar:
intrude, push out, thrust out, obtrusion, interloping, intrudance, encroachment, protusion, protruberance, obstruction, more...

Opposite:
receding, retreating, withdrawing

Types:
protuberant, bulbous, convex, humpbacked, protruding, swelling, more...

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Similar:
intrude, push out, thrust out, obtrusion, interloping, intrudance, encroachment, protusion, protruberance, obstruction, more...

Opposite:
receding, retreating, withdrawing

Types:
protuberant, bulbous, convex, humpbacked, protruding, swelling, more...



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