abstrude
/əbˈstɹuːd/
abstrude verb: to thrust away.
Verb
abstrude (third-person singular simple present abstrudes, present participle abstruding, simple past and past participle abstruded)
- To thrust away.
- Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […]1773, Thomas Patten, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord North, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Concerning Subscription to the 39 Articles, page 27
- .[…] the Greeks, while they retained the purity of their language, did not, any more than the Latins, rhyme their verse, but on the contrary (Mr. Swift's very words) 'abstruded the rhyme from it by metre and quantity.'1805, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, page 193
Forms of abstrude
| third-person singular present | abstrudes |
|---|---|
| present participle | abstruding |
| past participle | abstruded |
| past | abstruded |
Origin of abstrude
From Latin abstrūdō (“push away, hide”). See abstruse.
Words that rhyme with abstrude
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
- glued
Questions about abstrude
- What does abstrude mean?
- Abstrude means to thrust away.
- What part of speech is abstrude?
- Abstrude is a verb.
- How do you pronounce abstrude?
- Abstrude is pronounced /əbˈstɹuːd/.
- What is the past tense of abstrude?
- The past tense of abstrude is abstruded.
Words near abstrude in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: abstrude (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-abstrude.wav.
Cite this entry: “abstrude.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/abstrude. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.