Communication

Synonyms for intrude

Synonyms for intrude: obtrude and trespass. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for intrude

Interchangeable with intrude in this sense

Audited under intrude's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one intrude carries in that sense.

obtrudeverb, in the sense "thrust oneself in as if by force"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name intrude as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

trespasstrespass is a verb in the sense "enter unlawfully on someone's property"

The first group is filed under intrude's own sense. The second reaches intrude from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The senseverbTier 5, SummitCommunication

thrust oneself in as if by force

The colors don't intrude on the viewer.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

obtrude

Same sentence, swapped: The colors don't obtrude on the viewer.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot intrude is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

pry
dictate
clamp

Where intrude turns up in the game

intrude is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where intrude is the trap

pryverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is jimmy, in the sense "to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open", and intrude is on the board beside it.

Play intrude

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so intrude reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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