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Thrust   /θrəst/   Listen
verb
Thrust  v. t.  (past & past part. thrust; pres. part. thrusting)  
1.
To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. "Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves."
2.
To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
To thrust away or To thrust from, to push away; to reject.
To thrust in, to push or drive in.
To thrust off, to push away.
To thrust on, to impel; to urge.
To thrust one's self in or To thrust one's self into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome.
To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel.
To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. "I am eight times thrust through the doublet."
To thrust together, to compress.


Thrust  v. i.  (past & past part. thrust; pres. part. thrusting)  
1.
To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
2.
To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. "And thrust between my father and the god."
3.
To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. "Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse."
To thrust to, to rush upon. (Obs.) "As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade."


noun
Thrust  n., v.  Thrist. (Obs.)


Thrust  n.  
1.
A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; a word much used as a term of fencing. "(Polites) Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews."
2.
An attack; an assault. "One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism."
3.
(Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.
4.
(Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.
Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.
Synonyms: Push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.





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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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