extrude

[ ik-strood ]

verb (used with object)

, ex·trud·ed, ex·trud·ing.

1. to thrust out; force or press out; expel:

   to extrude molten rock.

2. to form (metal, plastic, etc.) with a desired cross section by forcing it through a die.

verb (used without object)

, ex·trud·ed, ex·trud·ing.

1. to protrude.
2. to be extruded:

   This metal extrudes easily.

extrude

/ ɪkˈstruːd /

verb

1. tr to squeeze or force out
2. tr to produce (moulded sections of plastic, metal, etc) by ejection under pressure through a suitably shaped nozzle or die
3. tr to chop up or pulverize (an item of food) and re-form it to look like a whole

   a factory-made rod of extruded egg

4. See protrude
   a less common word for protrude

Derived Forms

• exˈtruded, adjective

Other Words From

• ex·truder noun
• ex·tru·si·ble [ik-, stroo, -s, uh, -b, uh, l, -z, uh, -], ex·truda·ble adjective
• unex·truded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of extrude¹

1560–70; < Latin extrūdere to thrust out, drive out, equivalent to ex- ex- ¹ + trūdere to thrust, push

Word History and Origins

Origin of extrude¹

C16: from Latin extrūdere to thrust out, from trūdere to push, thrust

Example Sentences

Then, they bathed the extruded silk in a solution containing zinc and iron ions, eventually stretching the strands like taffy to make long, skinny fibers.

From Science News

Another approach, called fused deposition modeling, forces a filament through a device that heats and extrudes the material.

From MIT Technology Review

In the astonishing way sea stars feed, it extruded its stomach and slowly began the process of digesting the urchin externally.

From Popular-Science

By 1963, the prolific science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was already extruding worrisome consequences from the electrodes.

From Singularity Hub 

The graph of those solutions creates a geometric shape that looks vaguely like a vertical line extruding a bubble.

From Quanta Magazine

Other Tipulid on the contrary extrude their eggs joined end to end, so as to resemble a necklace of oval beads.

From Project Gutenberg

He notes the familiar fact that the vine-stump absorbed water before it began to extrude it.

From Project Gutenberg

What is lacking is an authority which can impose commands on the in-group and extrude blood revenge from it.

From Project Gutenberg

Ye have power, it is true, to extrude me from this new world, but my presence will be a bane to you in the old.

From Project Gutenberg

Pupipara: a series of Diptera, in which the females do not extrude the young until they have reached the stage ready to pupate.

From Project Gutenberg