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upthrust

upthrust noun: an upward thrust.

Noun

upthrust (countable and uncountable, plural upthrusts)

  1. An upward thrust.
  2. Buoyancy.
  3. An upward movement of part of the Earth's crust.

Verb

upthrust (third-person singular simple present upthrusts, present participle upthrusting, simple past and past participle upthrust or upthrusted)

  1. (transitive) To thrust something upwards.
  2. (intransitive) To be thrust upwards.

upthrust meaning in Tamil

upthrust in Tamil

மல் அமுக்கம்

Forms of upthrust

Noun
pluralupthrusts
Verb
third-person singular presentupthrusts
present participleupthrusting
past participleupthrust
pastupthrust
past participleupthrusted
pastupthrusted

Origin of upthrust

From up- + thrust.

Questions about upthrust

What does upthrust mean?
Upthrust means an upward thrust.
What is upthrust in Tamil?
Upthrust in Tamil is மல் அமுக்கம். See Upthrust meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upthrust?
Upthrust can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of upthrust?
The plural of upthrust is upthrusts.

Words near upthrust in the dictionary

  1. upthrew
  2. upthrow
  3. upthrowing
  4. upthrown
  5. upthrows
  6. upthrust
  7. upthrusted
  8. upthrusting
  9. upthrusts
  10. upthunder
  11. upthundered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upthrust (page history and authors); upthrust (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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