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      • someone who is in a place or situation where they are not wanted: I feel like an intruder when I visit their home. C2 someone who enters a place without permission in order to commit a crime: Intruders had entered the house through a back window.
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  2. someone who is in a place or situation where they are not wanted: I feel like an intruder when I visit their home. C2. someone who enters a place without permission in order to commit a crime: Intruders had entered the house through a back window. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Miscellaneous criminals.

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      INTRUDER meaning: 1. someone who is in a place or situation...

  3. An intruder is someone who enters a place or situation despite not being invited. If a Girl Scout comes to your door to sell you cookies but ends up trying to watch TV with you, you can call her an intruder.

  4. The meaning of INTRUDE is to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome. How to use intrude in a sentence.

  5. 1. To put or force in inappropriately, especially without invitation, fitness, or permission: intruded opinion into a factual report. 2. Geology To thrust (molten rock) into preexisting rock. v.intr.

  6. to push, thrust, or force upon someone or something without invitation, permission, or welcome: [ ~ + on + object] I don't want to intrude on you if you're busy. [ no object] I hope I'm not intruding. [ ~ + object] The judge intruded her prejudices into the case. See -trude-.

  7. Intruder Sentence Examples. The intruder fell back out the window. We had an intruder last night. Jule sensed the intruder shortly after dozing off. In England the Norman duke came in as a foreign intruder, without a native supporter to establish his rule over a single nation in its own land.

  8. There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun intruder. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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