obtrude

Etymology

From Latin obtrūdō (“thrust off or against”), from ob- (“ob-”) + trūdō (“thrust”).

verb

1. (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.
   By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude. 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
   It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […] 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
   The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England. 16 Jul 2007, Andrew Martin, The Guardian
2. (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into).
   How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!—They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them! 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 18
   Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks. 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
   It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life. 1991, Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre
   In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude. 7 Aug 2010, Colin Greenland, The Guardian
3. (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.
   She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail. 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, volume II
   This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?" 13 Jan 2004, Marc Abrahams, The Guardian
   As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself. 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 121