Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

retrude

American  
[ri-trood] / rɪˈtrud /

verb (used with object)

Dentistry.
retruded, retruding

  1. to produce retrusion in.

Etymology

Origin of retrude

1640–50; < Latin retrūdere to thrust back, equivalent to re- re- + trūdere to thrust

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.