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ex-trūdo , si, sum, 3, v. a.,
I.to thrust out or forth, to drive out, drive away (class.; syn. eicio).
I. Lit.: “me ex aedibus,” Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 5; “for which: me aedibus,” id. ib. 31: “me foras,” id. Truc. 1, 1, 68; Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 11: “a latebris suis extrusi hostes,” Tac. Agr. 33: “te in viam, simulac perpaululum gustaris, extrudam et eiciam,” will drive out, Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 234; cf. id. Fam. 14, 6; id. Att. 16, 2, 4: “is tamquam extruderetur a senatu in Macedoniam,” id. Phil. 10, 5, 10. —Absol.: “illam extrudet cum hanc ducet domum,” Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 63.—
B. Transf., with inanimate objects: “(ventus) extrudit saxa,” Lucr. 6, 692: extruso mari aggere ac molibus, kept out, * Caes. B. G. 3, 12, 3: “Euboea ad meridiem promontorium Geraeston et Capharea extrudit,” sends out, shoots out, Mel. 2, 7, 9: “merces,” to put off, to sell, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 11.—*
II. Trop., to crowd out: “rerum novitate extrusa vetustas,” Lucr. 3, 964.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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