thrust
/θɹʌst/
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Northern England/θɹʊst/
thrust noun: an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
Noun
thrust (countable and uncountable, plural thrusts)
- An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
- Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
- A push, stab, or lunge forward.
- The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
- Tilehurst […] began to pedal unhurryingly towards the anticipated lane, with the easy thrust of a man who has just made a substantial meal and knows that he has plenty of time and to spare for his appointment.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
- The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
- Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
- the pectoral fins are capable of generating high thrust during flutter2026, Xiangxiang Wang, Hualong Xie and Sirui Li, “Effect of pectoral fin locomotion parameters on fish propulsive performance”, in Engineering Research Express, volume 8, number 7
- The primary effort; the goal.
- Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.
- “The main thrust of it was that Britain is losing out, that Brexit it not delivering, our economy is in a weak position,” said the source.2023 February 11, Toby Helm, “Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN
Verb
thrust (third-person singular simple present thrusts, present participle thrusting, simple past and past participle thrust or thrusted)
- To make advance with force.
- We thrust at the enemy with our forces.
- To force something upon someone.
- I asked her not to thrust the responsibility on me.
- It is my earnest hope that the bitter lessons China has learned may prove instructive to countries and governments, and especially those in Asia which now face the same threat of Communism. Often it is not easy for most people to realize the presence of this threat in their midst, and by the time...1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7
- To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
- He thrust his arm into the icy stream and grabbed a wriggling fish, astounding the observers.
- Towers thrusting skyward.
- To push or drive with force; to shove.
- to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument
- Into a Dungeon thruſt, to work with Slaves?1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 28
- To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
- And thrust between my father and the god.1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
- To stab; to pierce; usually with through.
thrust meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
thrust in Hindi
- force due to propulsion
- प्रणोद praṇod
thrust in Tamil
- பலமாகத் தள்ளு, குத்து, ஊடுருவு, உள்ளே புகுத்து, உந்துவிசை, உந்து
thrust in Marathi
- to thrust, stuff, cram in
- कोंबणे kombṇe
thrust in Urdu
- ڈم, حربہ, زور, داخل ہونا, ڈھکیلنا, گھسنا
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- thrust in Bengali
- থ্রাস্ট
- thrust in Telugu
- గెంటు geṇṭu, చిమ్ము cimmu, పోటు pōṭu, పొడుచు poḍucu
- thrust in Malayalam
- തള്ളൽ ബലം, പ്രക്ഷേപക ബലം, തളളുക, കുത്തിത്തിരുകുക
- thrust in Kannada
- ನೂಕಣೆ, ನೂಕುಬಲ, ದೂಡು, ನೂಕು
- thrust in Odia
- ଥ୍ରଷ୍ଟ
- thrust in Sanskrit
- प्रहृ prahṛ
- thrust in Nepali
- थ्रस्ट
- thrust in Tagalog
- sikad
- thrust in Malay
- tujahan
- thrust in Indonesian
- dorongan
Examples of thrust in a sentence
- As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.
- He never got used to the cut and thrust of political debate.
- She thrust her yamstick into the hard ground to reach the prized tuber.
Synonyms of thrust
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Forms of thrust
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | thrusts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | thrusts |
| present participle | thrusting |
| past participle | thrust |
| past | thrust |
| past participle | thrusted |
| past | thrusted |
Origin of thrust
From Middle English þrusten, from Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.
Words formed from thrust
- abdominal-thrust maneuver
- antithrust
- backthrust
- bethrust
- blind thrust fault
- counterthrust
- cut and thrust
- cut-and-thrust
- fold and thrust belt
- hip thrust
- hip thrust pad
- home thrust
- megathrust
- modified chest thrust
- nonthrust
- pelvic thrust
- reverse thrust
- specific thrust
- squat thrust
- stop thrust
- thrust bucket
- thrust diamond
- thrust fault
- thrustful
- thrustless
- thrustlike
- thrust load
- thrustmeter
- thrust reverser
- thrust sheet
- thrust stage
- thrust vectoring
- time thrust
- tongue thrust
- unthrust
- outthrust
- overthrust
- upthrust
- misthrust
- thrustable
- thruster
- thrustingly
- thrust one's nose in
- thrustor
- thrust out
- underthrust
Phrases with thrust
Words that rhyme with thrust
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Questions about thrust
- What does thrust mean?
- Thrust means an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
- What is thrust in Hindi?
- Thrust in Hindi is प्रणोद (praṇod). See Thrust meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is thrust?
- Thrust can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce thrust?
- Thrust is pronounced /θɹʌst/.
- What is the plural of thrust?
- The plural of thrust is thrusts.
Words near thrust in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thrust (page history and authors); thrust (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कोंबणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); thrust (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thrust (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); గెంటు (Telugu) (page history and authors); thrust (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thrust (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thrust (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); प्रहृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); thrust (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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