intruder
Britishnoun
Explanation
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. Some intruders are robbers who break into homes or businesses with the intent to steal things: "The intruder was charged with trespassing, and later was found to have stolen some jewelry and cash." Other intruders might instead invade someone's privacy. Intruder comes from the verb intrude, from the Latin root intrudere, "to thrust in," a combination of in- and trudere, "to thrust or to push."
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Example Sentences
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His 1962 film, The Intruder, which examined racial tensions in America's Deep South, featured a young William Shatner and won an award at the Venice Film Festival.
From BBC • May 12, 2024
The A-6 Intruder pilot died in 2018 at age 61 of lung cancer.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023
In recent years, Quaid has become reliable in supporting roles such as his baddie in "The Intruder," or as Coach Dick Vermeil in "American Underdog."
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2023
The captain and crew of the Signet Intruder, a commercial tugboat, spotted and rescued the severely dehydrated and disoriented man Tuesday, giving him dry clothes, water and electrolytes, U.S.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022
Here shall no empty, vain Intruder chase, With idle converse, thy enchantment warm, That brings, in all its interest, all its grace, The dear, persuasive, visionary Form.
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna
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