Definitions for intrusion

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intrusion in·tru·sion

Spelling: [in-troo-zhuh n]

IPA: /ɪnˈtru ʒən/

Intrusion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 262 anagrams from letters in intrusion (iinnorstu).

Definitions for intrusion

noun

1. an act or instance of intruding.
2. the state of being intruded.
3. Law. an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property. a wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, made before the remainderman or reversioner has entered.
4. Geology. emplacement of molten rock in preexisting rock. plutonic rock emplaced in this manner. a process analogous to magmatic intrusion, as the injection of a plug of salt into sedimentary rocks. the matter forced in.

Origin of intrusion

1250-1300; Middle English Medieval Latin intrūsiōn- (stem of intrūsiō), equivalent to Latin intrūs(us), past participle of intrūdere to intrude (equivalent to intr

Examples for intrusion

I hope, gentlemen, you will forgive my intrusion on you this evening.

It is important not to lump all forms of intrusion together, but rather to consider them category by category.

I asked him whether critics and historians are threatened by his intrusion.

Though her presence was altogether an intrusion, it was unheeded.

Napoleon flushed with anger, enraged both at the intrusion and the teasing.

Some Africans consider the intervention an intrusion into internal affairs.

Despite the intrusion of the truth-telling stepsister, this mode is evident in The Privileges.

And while big celebrities loath its intrusion and sloppiness with facts, those chasing fame long to be in its pages.

The old man was looking at her with frank and friendly apology for his intrusion.

We find no one to object to our intrusion, and go on towards the village.