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Thrust v. t. (past & past part. thrust; pres. part. thrusting)

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."

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.

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Etymology of 'Thrust out'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thrust out" Quotes from Famous Books

... got fairly "outside," and well may it so be called; for I felt thrust out of the world. Then the breeze began to blow, and the sails were loosed, and hoisted; and after a while, the steamboat left us, and for the first time I felt the ship roll, a strange feeling enough, as if it were a great barrel in the water. Shortly after, I observed a swift little schooner running ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... truth, I cannot really think that humane letters are in much actual danger of being thrust out from their leading place in education, in spite of the array of authorities against them at this moment. So long as human nature is what it is, their attractions will remain irresistible. As with Greek, so with letters generally: they ...

— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... the fire at his foot and the flames leaped up and showed his face, she read the laughter in his soul; read it through the gleaming eyes, the twisted mouth which showed the teeth at one side in a horrible leer. His long arms thrust out ...

— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory

... interest and significance, compared with that drama of hope and love which has long ago reached its catastrophe, and left the poor soul, like a dim and dusty stage, with all its sweet garden-scenes and fair perspectives overturned and thrust out ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

... would be able to make his way to me when it was dark, and with my heart beating fast, hoping that he would have designed some way of escape, when my heart gave another bound, and I ran to the window to thrust out my head and listen, for unmistakably, although at some distance off, came the quick dull ...

— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn

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