Thrust /(?)/
Thrust
n. & v.
- Thrist. [Obs.]
Thrust
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting
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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.
Phrases & Compounds
- To thrust away
- 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
- 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.
- To thrust together
- to compress.
Thrust
v. i.
- To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
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To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
And thrust between my father and the god.
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To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.
Phrases & Compounds
- To thrust to
- to rush upon.
Thrust
n.
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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.
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An attack; an assault.
One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
- 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. (Mech.)
- The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. (Mining)
Phrases & Compounds
- Thrust bearing
- a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft.
- Thrust plane
- the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.