intrudeverb [ I ]
uk/ɪnˈtruːd/us/ɪnˈtruːd/C2 to go into a place or situation in which you are not wanted or not expected to be:
I didn't realize your husband was here, Dr Jones - I hope I'm not intruding.
Newspaper editors are being urged not to intrude on/into the grief of the families of missing servicemen.
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Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch
- pitch invasion
- pitch up
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will