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thrust

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  1. push                  
 
1. thrust \'thr*st\ vb or thrust;  or thrust.ing [ME thrusten, thristen, 
   fr. ON thry-sta] 1: to push or drive with force : SHOVE  2: to cause to 
   enter or pierce something by or as if by pushing  3: EXTEND, SPREAD  4: 
   STAB, PIERCE  5: INTERJECT, INTERPOLATE  6: to press, force, or impose the 
   acceptance of upon someone  1a: to force an entrance or passage  1b: to 
   push forward : press onward  1d: to push upward : PROJECT  2: to make a 
   thrust, stab, or lunge with or as if with a pointed weapon  - thrust.er n
2. thrust n 1a: a push or lunge with a pointed weapon  1b1: a verbal attack 
    1b2: a military assault  2a: a strong continued pressure  2b: the sideways 
   force or pressure of one part of a structure against anoth er part (as of 
   an arch against an abutment) 2c1: the force exerted endwise through a 
   propeller shaft to give forward mo tion 2c2: the forward directed reaction 
   force produced by a high-speed jet of fl uid discharged rearwards from a 
   nozzle (as in a jet airplane or a rocket) 2d: a nearly horizontal 
   geological fault  3a: a forward or upward push  3b: a movement (as by a 
   group of people) in a specified direction