protrude

Verb

protrude (third-person singular simple present protrudes, present participle protruding, simple past and past participle protruded)

1. (transitive) To cause (something) to extend above, beyond, or from a boundary or surface; to cause (something) to project or stick out.
   • With thoſe that ſtretcht along the Weſtern Coaſt; / To whom the old Creonian Towns were loſt, / Where high Epidium midſt th' Hibernian Waves, / Protrudes his Head, and all their Monſters braves.1695, Richard Blackmore, “Book IX”, in Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil […], →OCLC, page 267
   • He, when young Spring protrudes the burſting gems, / Marks the firſt bud, and ſucks the healthful gale / Into his freſhen'd ſoul; […]1730, James Thomson, “Autumn. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons.”, in The Seasons, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 185, lines 1213–1215

   Synonyms:

   protuberate

2. (also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To thrust (someone or something) forward; to drive or force along.
   • […] ye people standyng round about […] cried out, incontinently for the deliuerie of the Ladie, & for vengeaunce to be taken of hym, whiche so wickedly had protruded her into that daunger:1566, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, London: Richard Tottell and William Jones, Volume 1, The .xlj. Nouell
   • […] Palſies do oftneſt happen upon the left ſide if underſtood in this ſenſe; the moſt vigorous part protecting it ſelfe, and protruding the matter upon the weaker and leſſe reſiſtive ſide: […]1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Right and Left Hand”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 4th book, pages 190–191
3. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To put forward (an opinion, etc.) in an overly assertive manner; to obtrude.
4. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To cause (something) to emerge.
5. (intransitive) To extend above, beyond, or from a boundary or surface; to bulge outward, to project, to stick out.
   • The old woman's face was wrinkled, her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip, and her eyes were bright and piercing.1837 April, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Oliver Mingles with New Associates, and, Going to a Funeral for the First Time, Forms an Unfavourable Notion of His Master’s Business”, in Oliver Twist...
   • A sheaf of papers was held in his shirt pocket by a little fence of fountain pens and yellow pencils; and from his hip pocket protruded a notebook with metal covers.1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 20, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 272

   Synonyms:

   jut, protuberate

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To emerge with some speed; to shoot out.