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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... food with which I provided thee in my house." "I will cheerfully pay thee for the food," rejoined the traveller, "on condition that thou restore my saddle and merchandise." Upon this the litigants began to abuse each other and were thrust into the street, where the citizens, siding with Hidud, soundly beat the unlucky stranger, and then ...
— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston
... in a fog along the brink of a precipice, and discovers his position by setting a foot on the very edge and nearly falling over. He shrank from the abyss which he now saw yawning for him. At the same time he exerted himself to become popular, and since he was no longer anxious to thrust himself perpetually into the foremost place, ...
— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough
... Spirit—Thou who in my being's burning mesh Hath wrought the shining of the mist through and through the flesh, Who, through the double-wondered glory of the dust Hast thrust Habits of skies upon me, souls of days and nights, Where are the deeds that needs must be, The dreams, the high delights, That I once more may hear my voice From cloudy door to door rejoice— May stretch the boundaries of love Beyond the mumbling, mock horizons ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee
... had followed him out, having duties elsewhere in the building, so the Colonel sat alone listening to their retreating steps. His fine head was erect, his hands were clasped and his arms thrust out before him on the table. Jeb's confession was burning into his brain as he reviewed every chapter of the boy's behavior since early April. Each of Jeb's procrastinations and evasions now stood out clearly, connoting but one thing, predicated on but one thing! Slowly the old gentleman's ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris
... the words, uttered in German, "Look here, Hegner! I really can't stay any longer. You forget that I've a long way to go." She could not see the speaker, though she did her best to do so, as her host thrust her, with small ceremony, out of the ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes


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