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verb transitive

con-trūdo

2nd PP con-trūdere · 3rd PP con-trūdsi · 4th PP con-trūdsum · conj. 3rd
To thrust; crowd together •
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.—
To press, thrust, push; crowd in •
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.
Perseus ID: n10915 Key: contrudo