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Thrust   /θrəst/   Listen
Thrust

verb
(past thrust; past part. thrust)
1.
Push forcefully.
2.
Press or force.  Synonyms: shove, squeeze, stuff.  "She thrust the letter into his hand"
3.
Make a thrusting forward movement.  Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, lunge.
4.
Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably.  Synonym: force.
5.
Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument.  Synonym: pierce.
6.
Force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock.
7.
Push upward.  Synonym: push up.
8.
Place or put with great energy.  Synonym: throw.  "Thrust the money in the hands of the beggar"
noun
1.
The force used in pushing.  Synonym: push.  "The thrust of the jet engines"
2.
A strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument.  Synonyms: knife thrust, stab.
3.
The act of applying force to propel something.  Synonyms: drive, driving force.
4.
Verbal criticism.
5.
A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).  Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting.  "He made a thrusting motion with his fist"



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"Thrust" Quotes from Famous Books



... Serapis that he should regain his sight if the emperor would but deign to spit upon his eyelids. Another man, who had lost the use of a hand, had been told by the same god that he should be healed if the emperor would but trample on him with his feet. Vespasian at first laughed at them and thrust them off; but at last he so far yielded to their prayers, and to the flattery of his friends, as to have the physicians of Alexandria consulted whether it was in his power to heal these unfortunate men. The physicians, like good courtiers, were not so unwise as ...
— History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) • S. Rappoport
... know what will become of us all. We shall be thrust into the street. Even this squalid home ...
— The Telegraph Boy • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... wife of a young gentleman who has to keep his bed to get cured of a sword-thrust which he received four days ago ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... happiness then you now possess! For what you will, she will also: and what she desires, is all your pleasure. You may now tumble in a bed of Lillies and Roses; for all sour looks, are turn'd to sweet smiles, and she that used to thrust you from her, pulls you now every foot to her. Yea, those snow-white breasts, which before you durst scarce touch with your little finger; you may now, without asking leave, grasp by whole handfuls. Certainly, they that at full view, consider all this rightly; who can doubt but ...
— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh
... was as good as his word. When he was ready for another meal, he flew down to that ant hill. He found that when he plunged his bill into it, the ants fairly poured out to see what was happening, and all he had to do was to thrust out his long sticky tongue and lick them up. Never in all his life before had he filled his stomach so easily. After that, instead of wasting time hunting for worms and insects in the trees where he could find only one at a time, ...
— Mother West Wind "Where" Stories • Thornton W. Burgess


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