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[ UK /ðˈʌs/ ]
[ US /ˈðəs/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in the way indicated
    hold the brush so
    set up the pieces thus
  2. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
    therefore X must be true
    the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory
    it is late and thus we must go
    the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted
    we were young and thence optimistic
NOUN
  1. an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation

How To Use thus In A Sentence

  • I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
  • Oh, poof! You do not understand a little soldierly enthusiasm.
  • Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship , and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
  • His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method.
  • Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
  • Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
  • And thus the Washington Post column on David's congressional testimony, where he is described "hunched" and said to have "barked," "growled" and "snarled" -- language you would use to describe an animal. Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team
  • Such actively passive self-surrender is thus the necessary beginning of the regeneration on which loving union depends. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Thus, developing a vaccine directed against one or a few capsular polysaccharides may not be widely effective.
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