(verb) : trūdo, si, sum, 3, cf. Sanscr, tard-, to split
* To thrust, push, shove; to crowd or shove forward; to press on, drive, impel (class.; syn.: pello, expello).
* Lit.
* 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.
* 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. 4, 4, 40.