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intruder
CIDE DICTIONARY
intruder, n.
- One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser. [1913 Webster]"They were all strangers and intruders." [1913 Webster]
- A person who enters a private residence or place of business with the intention to perform a criminal act; as, killed by an intruder. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
intruder, n. a person who intrudes, esp. into a building with criminal intent.
THESAURUS
intruder
arrival, arriviste, black sheep, blemish, burglar, busybody, buttinsky, comer, crasher, emigrant, encroacher, entrant, foreign body, foreign intruder, gate-crasher, gatecrasher, greenhorn, immigrant, impurity, in-migrant, incomer, infiltrator, interloper, invader, kibitzer, meddler, misfit, monkey wrench, mote, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novus homo, oddball, parvenu, recruit, rookie, settler, sliver, snooper, speck, splinter, squatter, stone, stowaway, tenderfoot, thief, trespasser, uninvited guest, unwelcome guest, upstart, visitant, visitor, weedROGET THESAURUS
intruder
Extraneousness
N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.Interposition
N interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum.For further exploring for "intruder" in Webster Dictionary Online