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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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... 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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