Intruded

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Entered or came into a place or situation without being invited or allowed
2. Went into a space or situation uninvited or without consent
3. Broke into a place or intervened in a matter without permission

Etymology: "Intruded" is the past tense and past participle of "intrude", so its history is that of the verb itself. The verb comes from Latin "intrudere", built from "in-", meaning "into", and "trudere", meaning "to thrust" or "to push". The original picture is physical: something forced or pushed into a space it did not belong in. That concrete sense of shoving your way in is still visible in the modern meanings, where to intrude is to enter a place or a matter uninvited. The shift from pushing a thing into a space to pushing oneself into someone else's affairs is what gives the verb its present sense. The same "thrust" root also lies behind "protrude", which literally means to thrust forward, and "extrude", to push out. Seen together, these words show the root's basic meaning of force applied in a direction.

Synonyms: interfered, encroached, trespassed

Antonyms: excluded, avoided, left