extrude
Americanverb (used with object)
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extrudes,
present (3rd person singular)
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extruded,
past participle, past
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extruding
present participle
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to thrust out; force or press out; expel.
to extrude molten rock.
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to form (metal, plastic, etc.) with a desired cross section by forcing it through a die.
verb (used without object)
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extrudes,
present (3rd person singular)
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extruded,
past participle, past
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extruding
present participle
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to protrude.
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to be extruded.
This metal extrudes easily.
verb
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(tr) to squeeze or force out
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(tr) to produce (moulded sections of plastic, metal, etc) by ejection under pressure through a suitably shaped nozzle or die
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(tr) to chop up or pulverize (an item of food) and re-form it to look like a whole
a factory-made rod of extruded egg
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a less common word for protrude
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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extrudesimple
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extrudessimple
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have extrudedperfect
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has extrudedperfect
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am extrudingprogressive
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are extrudingprogressive
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is extrudingprogressive
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have been extrudingperfect progressive
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has been extrudingperfect progressive
Past
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extrudedsimple
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had extrudedperfect
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was extrudingprogressive
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were extrudingprogressive
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had been extrudingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of extrude
1560–70; < Latin extrūdere to thrust out, drive out, equivalent to ex- ex- 1 + trūdere to thrust, push
Explanation
If you force material through an opening to give it form or shape, you are extruding the material. You can use a pasta maker to extrude the pasta dough in various shapes — from spaghetti to linguine to macaroni. Extrude is from the Latin word extrudere, which itself can be broken into the roots ex-, meaning "out," and trudere, meaning "to thrust." In the noun form, the process is called extrusion. You can extrude all kinds of materials and products by forcing them through an opening, including cheese puffs, pasta, candy, plastic toys like the hula hoop, assorted pipes and hoses, and glass tubing.
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Things have disintegrated since, hastened by the predictable filleting of goods and services to extrude every last cent of value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
To print a new material from scratch, one must typically set up to 100 parameters in software that controls how the printer will extrude the material as it fabricates an object.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Large language models such as ChatGPT extrude remarkably fluent and coherent-seeming text but have no understanding of what the text means, let alone the ability to reason.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 12, 2023
Seeming to extrude the words rather than speak them, Matthew Rhys expertly conveys Perry’s confusion about his own motivations.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
Fournier has seen a juggler with a tongue so long that he could extrude it six inches from his mouth.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
“When a movie finds its running length and you see the shape of what it should be, it extrudes things it doesn’t need,” says Tony Kushner, who co-wrote “The Fabelmans” with director Steven Spielberg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
Murata pushes on the ordinary until it extrudes into unusual shapes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
This combines a nozzle that extrudes molten polymer with one that prints light-sensitive resin, ready to be cured by ultraviolet lamps or lasers, and two that print wires and circuitry from tiny dots of metal13.
From Nature ● Feb. 4, 2020
It’s the rare pub that extrudes fresh pasta for its mac and cheese.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
She extrudes the internal mechanism, which easily passes through the loose debris of the boring.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
Individual strands of acrylic paint are extruded from syringes, dried, and woven into the blazer-and-skirt ensemble “Anna.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
When one user asked it to produce a map of the U.S. with all the states labeled, GPT-5 extruded a fantasyland, including states such as Tonnessee, Mississipo and West Wigina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
These two solutions were then merged together side-by-side, and the material was extruded to make one fiber.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023
The whole concoction gets extruded through a machine that pressure-cooks it into bite-sized, cereallike bits.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2023
Once the meat was soaked, it would be transported to the lower levels to be ground, canned, pickled, brined, extruded into sausage casings, or cut into chops.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
One of those is 3D printing, which involves extruding concrete or other materials to build up the walls of a house.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
As the resin comes out, it is cured carefully using UV lights that shine on both sides of the slowly extruding fiber.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
A blustery snowstorm is a tight knot of dancers, dressed in winter whites, alternately engulfing and extruding passersby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
It was a deceptively simple-looking open-sided box with a nozzle for extruding fine threads of plastic — over the course of minutes or hours, those threads would be painstakingly layered to form an object.
From The Verge ● Dec. 10, 2019
Comrade Pillai had finished his avial and was squashing a ripe banana, extruding the sludge through his closed fist into his plate of curd, when Velutha knocked.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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