Synonym: bear, drive, goad, press, prod, propel, push, ram, shove. Similar words: rust, crust, trust, rustle, rustic, distrust, frustrate, frustration. Meaning: [θrʌst] n. 1. the force used in pushing 2. a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument 3. the act of applying force to propel something 4. verbal criticism 5. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow). v. 1. push forcefully 2. press or force 3. make a thrusting forward movement 4. impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably 5. penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument 6. force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock 7. push upward 8. place or put with great energy.
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241. In its upright form it represents the vertical thrust of life across sedimentary layers of earthly matter.
242. He provides the intellectual thrust and gravitas of the arguments of those who oppose monetary and political union.
243. The Count thrust his blade through Gorbad's massive chest and steaming green blood gushed over his armour.
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244. I thrust into rough grass and smoothly penetrated your loamy depths.
245. During the next three years, thousands of welfare families will be thrust into this low-income labor market because of welfare reform.
246. Only a bold topknot of dry leaves thrust from his crown, grey-green and jagged.
247. The reactions and thrust of each deck is taken on elastomeric bearings and by ballast walls.
248. Unlike Dole, Clinton would preserve the thrust of programs designed to assure that women and minorities are not left out.
249. The thrust and strain which has dominated these twenty-five years now seems quite irrelevant.
250. As well as the crushing effects described above, many of the rocks in the thrust zone suffered hydrothermal alteration.
251. As the impulse passes any point on the fibre, the membrane allows a sudden thrust of positive sodium ions.
252. Moreover, the back limbs of such folds may become detached along major thrust faults to produce nappes.
253. Ever since the personnel computer first thrust itself on to our desks it has been a largely text based machine.
254. The two then fenced at each other with their beaks, each parrying the other's thrust.
255. One approach consists of varying only the total flow thereby maintaining the same thrust chamber hardware.
256. Its thrust was vague enough to imply no precise consequences.
257. Must we simultaneously thrust the Unawares out at the back entrance?
258. Then she seized the chunk of fire and suddenly thrust it almost into the boy's face.
259. The conductor brought home the full thrust of the work's emotional resolution.