intruding

6.1

Sticking into a space from outside

adjective
/ɪnˈtruːdɪŋ/

: intrusivo

I noticed an intruding wall in the small room, which took away from the available space.

Examples

And that I most often and more often than not have an ability to see when it's now intruding into my thoughts.
This is gender politics intruding on the personal decisions that a parents make.
You know, they had some pests intruding on parts of the land, and this made it complex to draw inferences from the experiment.
That is where the categorical imperative is as a something possible intruding into actuality.
You have Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck and a horse standing behind them, and the horse's head is always intruding and so on and so on.
Now it wasn't fully intruding, just kind of dangling there, like a waddle on a turkey, but this was from my arse, not my neck.

Blog text (14)
The branches were intruding into our backyard, making it hard to enjoy the space.
The large rock was intruding into the path, forcing us to walk around it.

Synonyms

intrusive

vsintruding

3 6.6

Sticking inward from a surface into a space

has the same literal inward projecting meaning but different word form

How Deep

deep

∞ 1.0

penetrating

1 4.9

intruding

6.1

recessed

1 5.6

flush

3 6.5

Surface Forms

intruding positive

Morphology

intruding = intrude (transparent) = intrude + ing

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ing' to the verb 'intrude'; the adjectival participle meaning is directly predictable from the verb.

Etymology

Intruding comes from Latin parts in- meaning 'into' and trudere meaning 'to push'. So something described as intruding is literally 'pushing into' a space, which fits the idea of an object or part projecting inward.