contrude (English, verb)
expansion: contrude (third-person singular simple present contrudes, present participle contruding, simple past and past participle contruded)
Senses:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: to crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)
tags: intransitive
rare
transitive
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: to crowd or push together (in senses relating to teeth)
to create an abnormal inward curve of any portion of the line of the dental arch
tags: intransitive
rare
transitive
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: to cause a downward or inward curve line of the strata
tags: intransitive
transitive
glosses: to motivate; to influence
tags: intransitive
rare
transitive
glosses: to envisage; to imagine
tags: intransitive
transitive
glosses: to thrust or crowd together; to cram
tags: intransitive
obsolete
transitive
Forms:
form: contrudes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contruding
tags: participle
present
form: contruded
tags: participle
past
form: contruded
tags: past