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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: extrudere, from trudere 'to push'

extrude

 verb
     
Related topics: Industry
ex‧trude [transitive]
1 formal to push or force something out through a hole
2 technicalTI to force plastic or metal through a hole so that it has a particular shape
—extrusion noun [uncountable and countable]
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