intruding

English

Verb

intruding

1. present participle and gerund of 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.