ex-trūdo, si, sum, 3, v. a., 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.