[ UK /θɹˈʌst/ ]
[ US /ˈθɹəst/ ]
VERB
  1. impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
    She forced her diet fads on him
  2. place or put with great energy
    thrust the money in the hands of the beggar
    She threw the blanket around the child
  3. make a thrusting forward movement
  4. penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
  5. press or force
    Stuff money into an envelope
    She thrust the letter into his hand
  6. push upward
    The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air
  7. push forcefully
    He thrust his chin forward
  8. force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock
NOUN
  1. a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
    one strong stab to the heart killed him
  2. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
    he made a thrusting motion with his fist
    he warned me with a jab with his finger
  3. verbal criticism
    he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians
  4. the act of applying force to propel something
    after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off
  5. the force used in pushing
    the thrust of the jet engines
    the push of the water on the walls of the tank
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How To Use thrust In A Sentence

  • But the main thrust of correspondence focused on the future of a particular medical practice.
  • But it was the introduction of the breathalyser in 1967 that really thrust her into the public's consciousness, especially as she herself was a non-driver.
  • The main thrust of my irritation comes from the fact that this was marketed in Previews as the issue that would tell us what Noh-Varr has been doing. Review: Dark Avengers Annual #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • Along the Leathad Riabhach gully, the Ben More Thrust steepens into a subvertical fault with gneiss to the NE and quartzite to the SW.
  • As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey.
  • This thrust, though, is generally reckoned to grant sufficient dynamic counterplay. Times, Sunday Times
  • The organisation's shield consisted of a male forearm whose fist was thrusting the point of a spear into the jaws of a wolf. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
  • The heat touched off the Hi-Thrust which burst in a needle flame from the petcock. The Stars My Destination
  • Stay, look at this, "continued he, replying by a thrust in" seconde "to a straight thrust;" if I had lunged, I should have spitted you like a lark. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental
  • The rocks are asymmetrically folded and overthrust to the west, with chaotic units and abundant evidence for coeval soft-sediment deformation.
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