trūdo, si, sum, 3, v. a. [cf. Sanscr, tard-, to split], to thrust, push, shove; to crowd or shove forward; to press on, drive, impel (class.; syn.: pello, expello).
I Lit.
A In gen.: vis haec quidem hercle est et trahi et trudi simul, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 92: quas mihi tenebras trudis? id. Ep. 3, 4, 40: trudit et impellit, Lucr. 6, 1032: adverso trudere monte saxum, id. 3, 1000: montem pectore, Verg. G. 3, 373: (hostes) trudunt adversos, Tac. A. 2, 11: glaciem cum flumina trudunt, Verg. G. 1, 310: ille hinc trudetur largus lacrimarum foras, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 30: apros in plagas, Hor. Epod. 2, 31: ad proelia inertem, id. Ep. 1, 5, 17: semet in arma, Tac. H. 5, 25.—
B In partic., of growth, to push forth , put forth , send forth (poet.): (pampinus) trudit gemmas, Verg. G. 2, 335: se de cortice (gemmae), id. ib. 2, 74: truditur e sicco radix oleagina ligno, id. ib. 2, 31: offenso truditur igne latex, Claud. de Apono, 13.—
II Trop.: secundae res laetitiă transvorsum trudere solent a recte consulendo atque intellegendo, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14: ad mortem trudi, Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71: in quae (comitia) omnibus invitis trudit noster Magnus Auli filium, puts forward (to bring him into office), id. Att. 1, 16, 12: quo ne trudamur, di immortales nos admonent, id. Har. Resp. 28, 61: in vitia alter alterum trudimus, Sen. Ep. 41, 7: semel in arma trusos, Tac. H. 5, 25: truditur dies die, Hor. C. 2, 18, 15, cf.: sic vita truditur, is hurried on , Petr 82: fallacia Alia aliam trudit, presses hard upon , closely follows the other , Ter. And. 779.