retrude

English

Etymology

From Latin retrudere; re- + trudere (“to thrust”).

Verb

retrude (third-person singular simple present retrudes, present participle retruding, simple past and past participle retruded)

  1. To thrust back.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for retrude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

rētrūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rētrūdō
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