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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

... protection, but we could do nothing. I could not help feeling very sorry for the poor devils, for the way justice is administered in Sistan, as in most parts of Persia, is not particularly attractive. The tendons of the hands or feet are cut even for small offences, hot irons are thrust into the criminal's limbs, and other such trifling punishments are inflicted if sufficient money is not forthcoming from the accused or their relations ...

— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... proceeded to explore it with the smallest points of metals which could be drawn along the skin without pricking or tearing. These points were attached to metallic cylinders, and around the cylinders rubber bands were placed; the cylinders were then thrust in hot or cold water kept at certain regular temperatures, and lifted by the rubber bands. They were placed point down, with equal pressure, upon the points of the skin in the area chosen. In this way, points which responded only to hot, and also those responding only ...

— The Story of the Mind • James Mark Baldwin

... and as she looked down at the ring she thought that instead of "Peace be with thee," the Semitic characters must surely mean, "Disquiet seize thee!" for they had shivered the beautiful calm of her girlish nature, and thrust into her mind ideas unknown until that day. Going to her own room, she opened her books, but ere she could fix her wandering ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... and a sensitive galvanometer. The strip was supported so that one end bore upon the button with a pressure which could be regulated by an adjustable screw at the other. The strip expanded or contracted when exposed to heat or cold, and thrust itself upon the button more or less, thereby varying the electric current and deflecting the needle of the galvanometer to one side or the other. The instrument was said to indicate a change of temperature equivalent to one-millionth of a degree ...

— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... their violent onslaughts of December 1919 and January 1920, the renewed offensive of July 1920 at the same places—after which the Albanian Government forwarded to that of Belgrade an assurance of goodwill—and the organized thrust of August 13 against Dibra, which was preceded on August 10 by a manifesto to the chancelleries of Europe falsely accusing the Serbs of having begun these operations, and which was followed by the Tirana Government promising to try to find the guilty persons? The ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein

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