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intrude

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To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.

To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another.

To enter by force; to invade.

The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Thoughts are saturated with energies that can intrude immediately or hover around you until they have an opportunity to take advantage of you. Thought forms that surround you at a particular moment may wait until a later time to affect you. Bhakti Tirtha Swami

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman. Ingrid Bergman

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it. Robert Ludlum

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. Charles Caleb Colton

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude. Mary Balogh

We have no substance to talk about ostensibly terrible Lukashenka's regime. Belarussian people have chosen stability and Lukashenka, so I support their choice. Lithuanian Government shouldn't intrude into Belarussia's affairs. Mindaugas Murza

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