Usually means: Extend outward beyond a surface.
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  1. protrude: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. protrude: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. protrude: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. protrude: Collins English Dictionary
  5. protrude: Vocabulary.com
  6. protrude: Wordnik
  7. protrude: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. protrude: Wiktionary
  9. protrude: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. protrude: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. protrude: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. protrude: Dictionary.com
  13. protrude: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. protrude: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Protrude: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. protrude: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. protrude: Rhymezone
  18. protrude: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. protrude: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. protrude: Free Dictionary
  21. protrude: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. protrude: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. protrude: Legal dictionary

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  1. protrude: Encyclopedia

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  2. protrude: Medical dictionary

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  1. protrude: Idioms

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  1. protrude: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to extend from a surface or boundary; to cause to stick out.
verb:  (transitive) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To thrust forward; to drive or force along.

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