con-trūdo, si, sum, 3, v. a.
- I. To thrust or crowd together (mostly anteclass.): nubes (vis venti), Lucr. 6, 510; cf. id. 6, 211 and 734: penitusque casa contrusa jacebant Corpora, crowded together, id. 6, 1254.
- II. To press, thrust, push, or crowd in: uvam in dolia, Varr. R. R. 1, 54, 2: stantis equi corpus … videtur vis in adversum flumen contrudere, aliquos in balneas, Cic. Cael. 26, 63; Varr. L. L. 8, § 31 Müll.
Rarely of a single person: Florentius … contrusus est in insulam, Amm. 22, 3, 6.