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Entry 10 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Thrust

/thrŭst/ · IPA /θɹʌst/
01 n. & v. Thrist.
  1. 1.
    Thrist.[Obs.]
02 v. t. 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.
imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting
  1. 1.
    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.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    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.
03 v. i. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
  1. 1.
    To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
  2. 2.
    To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
    “And thrust between my father and the god.” — Dryden.
  3. 3.
    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.” — Spenser.
Phrases & compounds
To thrust to — to rush upon.
04 n. 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;…
  1. 1.
    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.” — Dryden.
  2. 2.
    An attack; an assault.
    “One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.” — Dr. H. More.
  3. 3.
    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.)
  4. 4.
    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.
Syn. Push; shove; assault; attack.
Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.