intruding

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of intrude

noun

  1. intrusion
    […] 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. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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