jut
[verb]
Synonyms: stick out, bulge, extend, overhang, poke, project, protrude

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Related Words: elongate, extend, lengthen

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jut /dʒʌt/ (also jut out) verb (past tense and past participle jutted, present participle jutting)
[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: ⇒ jet² 'to stick out' (16-18 centuries)]

1. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] something that juts out sticks out further than the other things around it:
Tall jagged rocks jutted out over the beach.

2. [transitive] if you jut your chin out, you move it so that it sticks forward:
She jutted her chin out aggressively as she glowered back at him.
—jutting adjective:
jutting cliffs

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