MEANING
To push or force material outward through an opening or beyond a surrounding surface.
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Words that belong together
- extrude material
- extrude through a gap
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The damaged chamber extruded a ribbon of soft material.
A pale tendril extruded through the seam in the shell.
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Word forms
- Base
- extrude
- Past tense
- extruded
- Past participle
- extruded
- Present participle
- extruding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- extrude
- Present continuous
- am/is/are extruding
- Present perfect
- have/has extruded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been extruding
- Past
- extruded
- Past continuous
- was/were extruding
- Past perfect
- had extruded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been extruding
- Future
- will extrude
- Future continuous
- will be extruding
- Future perfect
- will have extruded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been extruding
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: extrude; extrudes; extruded; extruded; extruding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: extrudes.
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