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Thrusting   /θrˈəstɪŋ/   Listen
Thrusting

noun
1.
A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).  Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust.  "He made a thrusting motion with his fist"


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"



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"Thrusting" Quotes from Famous Books



... devoted her energies to thrusting and cutting at those who tried to press past the mucker, that they might take him from behind. The battle could not last long, so unequal were the odds. She saw the room beyond filled with surging warriors all trying to force their way within reach of the great ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... Yill abandoned the double role. Dancing forgotten, he settled down in earnest, cutting, thrusting, parrying; and now the two stood toe to toe, sabres clashing in a lightning exchange. The Yill gave a step, two, then rallied, ...
— The Yillian Way • John Keith Laumer
... Thrusting back his chair, he caught up his hat from a rack and followed. He was in time to see her pass through the low door out into the night. Without hesitation his mind had leaped to a definite purpose. He would overtake her outside, introduce himself, and then perhaps he would ...
— Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • James Oliver Curwood
... his voice sounding basso in the thick air and the Merchant answered. The Explorer made his way toward him, thrusting violently at the coarse stalks that barred ...
— Youth • Isaac Asimov
... for the gentlemen around him appeared so exactly like a lot of college students. And, the further to complete the resemblance, some of them were engaged in reading trashy translated novels, which they kept hurriedly thrusting between the sheets of their apportioned work whenever the Director appeared, as though to convey the impression that it was to that work alone that they were applying themselves. In short, the scene seemed to Tientietnikov strange, and his former pursuits more important than his present, and his ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


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