Definition of "thrust"

thrust

/θɹʌst/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural thrusts
1. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
2. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
3. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
4. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
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  “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
verb
third-person singular simple present thrusts, present participle thrusting, simple past and past participle thrust or thrusted
1. (intransitive) To make advance with force.
2. (transitive) To force something upon someone.
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  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 they do, it may already be too late to prevent its thrusting them behind the Iron Curtain at least for a time.
  1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, page 7
3. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
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  Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
  1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915
4. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
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  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. M[acock] for John Starkey […], page 28
5. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
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  And thrust between my father and the god.
  1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
6. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

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