Crossword-Solution: THRUST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Thrust | n. & v. | Thrist. |
| Thrust | imp. & p. p. | of Thrust |
| Thrust | 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. |
| Thrust | v. t. | To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. |
| Thrust | v. i. | To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist. |
| Thrust | v. i. | To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. |
| Thrust | v. i. | To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. |
| Thrust | 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; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. |
| Thrust | n. | An attack; an assault. |
| Thrust | n. | 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. |
| Thrust | n. | The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| THRUST | anagram | TRUTHS |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with THRUST (5)
Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again.
All the air was white with moonlight, All the water black with shadow, And around him the Suggema, The mosquito, sang his war-song, And the fire-flies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him; And the bull-frog, the Dahinda, Thrust his head into the moonlight, Fixed his yellow eyes upon him, Sobbed and sank beneath the surface; And anon a thousand whistles, Answered over all the fen-lands, And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Far off on the reedy margin, Heralded the hero’s coming.
Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two Imparadis’t in one anothers arms The happier _Eden_, shall enjoy thir fill Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust, Where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire, Among our other torments not the least, Still unfulfill’d with pain of longing pines; Yet let me not forget what I have gain’d From thir own mouths; all is not theirs it seems: One fatal Tree there stands of Knowledge call’d, Forbidden them to taste: Knowledge forbidd’n? Suspicious, reasonless.
Wait a minute.” Carl thrust his hands into his pockets, lowered his head, and darted up the street against the north wind.
But Boldwood grew hot down to his hands with an incipient jealousy; he trod for the first time the threshold of “the injured lover’s hell.” His first impulse was to go and thrust himself between them.
Quotes with THRUST (3)
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny. To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints o…
At first the weight of loss was thrust upon me so harshly I could only take a short breath, just enough to endure the next few seconds, only to find I must inhale again. Every person in turmoil thinks the boulder on her chest will never lift. Yet the same boulder awakens an equally strong urge to live.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 42 times in crossword archives (1977–2025).