protrude
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- transitive verb To push or thrust outward.
- intransitive verb To jut out; project. See Synonyms at bulge.
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- He had a severe overbite condition, which made his top lip protrude outwards, giving his countenance a permanent frown. — Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest
- For an instant the wrinkles were smoothed away, the nose drew away from the chin, the lower lip ceased to protrude and the mouth to mumble, the dull eyes regained their fire, the drooping figure expanded. — The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- From shoulder to shoulder he was three and a half feet wide-and I know that because I once saw him hold a cavalry sabre horizontal across his chest, and it didn't protrude either side. — Flashman And The Redskins
- Tangled threads of hair protrude* from under his hood and around his mask. — The Black Company
- A cross-country skier who had moved off of a main trial in order to find a secluded place to urinate spotted one of the skids of Tami's snowmobile as it was beginning to protrude from a snow-filled ravine above Pearl Lake, high in the Elk River Valley. — Cold Case
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- Latin prōtrūdere : prō-, forward; see pro-1 + trūdere, to thrust; see treud- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (prō-tro͞odˈ)/
ahd pronounces "protrude"
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