intruding

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Verb

1. present participle of intrude#English|intrude

Noun

intruding (plural intrudings)

1. intrusion
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

     […] he rose and adjusted his alarm-clock, so that it would emphatically repeat the hour of five. Then to bed again, and driving off all intrudings of thoughtfulness, and resolutely bending himself to slumber, he by-and-by fell into its […] arms.

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