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Intrusive

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Adjective

1. intrusive

tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)

Example Sentences:
'she felt her presence there was intrusive'

2. intrusive

of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock

3. intrusive

thrusting inward

Example Sentences:
'an intrusive arm of the sea'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Intrusive

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adjective
1. 
characterized by intrusion or tending to intrude
2. 
(of igneous rocks) formed by intrusion
Compare extrusive (sense 2)
3. phonetics
relating to or denoting a speech sound that is introduced into a word or piece of connected speech for a phonetic rather than a historical or grammatical reason, such as the (r) often pronounced between idea and of in the idea of it

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Intrusive

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adjective
1. 
intruding or tending to intrude
2.  Geology
designating or of igneous rock formed from magma that hardened while still within the earth, moon, etc.
see also extrusive (sense 2)
3.  Phonetics
present or added in speech although not represented originally in spelling or accounted for otherwise etymologically (Ex.: the d added to OE spinel to form spindle)
see also epenthesis

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Intrusive

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adj.
1. Intruding or tending to intrude.
2. Geology Of or relating to igneous rock that is forced while molten into cracks or between other layers of rock.
3. Linguistics Epenthetic.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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