Words that rhyme with intrude

  • accrued
    adj 1: periodically accumulated over time; "accrued interest"; "accrued leave" [syn: accrued, accumulated]
  • allude
    v 1: make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" [syn: allude, touch, advert]
  • brood
    n 1: the young of an animal cared for at one time v 1: think moodily or anxiously about something [syn: brood, dwell] 2: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn: brood, hover, loom, bulk large] 3: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout, brood] 4: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, brood, stew] 5: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" [syn: brood, hatch, cover, incubate]
  • collude
    v 1: act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose; "The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall" [syn: conspire, collude]
  • conclude
    v 1: decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" [syn: reason, reason out, conclude] 2: bring to a close; "The committee concluded the meeting" 3: reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation [syn: conclude, resolve] 4: come to a close; "The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin" [syn: conclude, close] 5: reach agreement on; "They concluded an economic agreement"; "We concluded a cease-fire"
  • crude
    adj 1: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" [syn: crude, rough] 2: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar] 3: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" [syn: unrefined, unprocessed, crude] [ant: processed, refined] 4: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains" [syn: crude, primitive, rude] 5: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)] 6: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn: crude, raw] n 1: a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil]
  • delude
    v 1: be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen]
  • denude
    v 1: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: denude, bare, denudate, strip]
  • dude
    n 1: an informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" [syn: fellow, dude, buster] 2: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
  • elude
    v 1: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" [syn: elude, evade, bilk] 2: be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" [syn: elude, escape] 3: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]
  • exclude
    v 1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include] 2: prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: exclude, keep out, shut out, shut] [ant: admit, include, let in] 3: lack or fail to include; "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages" [ant: include] 4: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude] 5: put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" [syn: eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out]
  • extrude
    v 1: form or shape by forcing through an opening; "extrude steel" [syn: extrude, squeeze out]
  • exude
    v 1: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores" [syn: exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze] 2: make apparent by one's mood or behavior; "She exudes great confidence"
  • feud
    n 1: a bitter quarrel between two parties v 1: carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years"
  • food
    n 1: any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue [syn: food, nutrient] 2: any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment; "food and drink" [syn: food, solid food] 3: anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking [syn: food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment]
  • glued
    adj 1: affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste; "he stayed glued to one spot"; "pieces of pasted paper" [syn: glued, pasted]
  • include
    v 1: have as a part, be made up out of; "The list includes the names of many famous writers" [ant: exclude] 2: consider as part of something; "I include you in the list of culprits" [ant: except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out] 3: add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category; "We must include this chemical element in the group" 4: allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" [syn: admit, let in, include] [ant: exclude, keep out, shut, shut out]
  • lewd
    adj 1: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious] 2: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful]
  • mood
    n 1: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: temper, mood, humor, humour] 2: the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: climate, mood] 3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality]
  • nude
    adj 1: completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model" [syn: bare, au naturel(p), naked, nude] n 1: a painting of a naked human figure [syn: nude, nude painting] 2: without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude'); "they swam in the nude" 3: a naked person [syn: nude, nude person] 4: a statue of a naked human figure [syn: nude, nude sculpture, nude statue]
  • obtrude
    v 1: push to thrust outward [syn: push out, obtrude, thrust out] 2: thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer" [syn: intrude, obtrude]
  • preclude
    v 1: keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid] 2: make impossible, especially beforehand [syn: preclude, rule out, close out]
  • protrude
    v 1: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project] 2: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out] 3: swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" [syn: bulge, pouch, protrude]
  • prude
    n 1: a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum [syn: prude, puritan]
  • pseud
    n 1: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]
  • pursued
    adj 1: followed with enmity as if to harm; "running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes" n 1: a person who is being chased; "the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued" [syn: pursued, chased]
  • renewed
    adj 1: restored to a new condition; "felt renewed strength"
  • rood
    n 1: representation of the cross on which Jesus died [syn: crucifix, rood, rood-tree]
  • rude
    adj 1: socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion" [syn: ill-mannered, bad- mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly] 2: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish] 3: lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather [syn: uncivil, rude] [ant: civil, polite] 4: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)] 5: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains" [syn: crude, primitive, rude]
  • seclude
    v 1: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw]
  • shrewd
    adj 1: marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" [syn: astute, sharp, shrewd] 2: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd]
  • skewed
    adj 1: having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" [syn: skew, skewed]
  • snood
    n 1: an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head
  • stewed
    adj 1: cooked in hot water [syn: boiled, poached, stewed]
  • subdued
    adj 1: in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand" [syn: hushed, muted, subdued, quiet] 2: restrained in style or quality; "a little masterpiece of low- keyed eloquence" [syn: low-key, low-keyed, subdued] 3: quieted and brought under control; "children were subdued and silent" 4: not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting" [syn: soft, subdued] 5: lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" [syn: dim, subdued]
  • jude
    n 1: (New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless [syn: Jude, Saint Jude, St. Jude, Judas, Thaddaeus] 2: a New Testament book attributed to Saint Jude [syn: Epistle of Jude, Jude]
  • blued
  • brewed
  • canoed
  • chewed
  • construed
  • cued
  • endued
  • ensued
  • eschewed
  • hued
  • imbued
  • reviewed
  • screwed
  • sued
  • tattooed
  • unglued
  • viewed
  • who'd
  • you'd
  • booed
  • clued
  • cude
  • gude
  • abboud
  • abood
  • aboud
  • debuted
  • likud
  • ballyhooed
  • gertrude

See also intrude definition and intrude synonyms