intrusion
Other forms: intrusions
An intrusion is a deliberate move into someone else's territory — either literal or figurative. When your sister interrupts your conversation with that girl from math class, that's an intrusion. If someone breaks into your home, that's also an intrusion.
First used in the late 14th century, the noun intrusion derives from the Latin word intrudere, which combines the prefix in-, meaning "in," and trudere, meaning "to thrust, push." If someone reads your diary, that's considered an intrusion of privacy. Ordering a Muslim woman to take off her veil would be considered an intrusion on religious beliefs. You may remember intrusion used in science class to describe molten rock that forms in an earlier rock formation.
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entrance by force or without permission or welcome
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entry to another's property without right or permissionsynonyms: encroachment, trespass, usurpation, violationtypes:inroadan encroachment or intrusiontype of:
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any entry into an area not previously occupiedsynonyms: encroachment, invasion
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the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formationtype of:geologic process, geological process(geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified
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rock produced by an intrusive process
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Vocabulary lists containing intrusion
As you read Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 9's Collection 1: A Quilt of a Country, Once Upon a Time, Rituals of Memory, The Gettysburg Address
Edge: Level C. Volume 2, Unit 6, Cluster 1. Here are links to the other clusters within Unit 6: "Too Young to Drive?" and "Rules of the Road", "Piracy Bites!" and "Doonesbury on Downloading", "Long Walk to Freedom" and "We Hold These Truths"
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