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1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
   "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
   - jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust

1. Push forcefully
   "He thrust his chin forward"
    
2. Press or force
   "She thrust the letter into his hand"
   - stuff, shove, squeeze
    
3. Make a thrusting forward movement
   - lunge, hurl, hurtle
    
4. Impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
   - force
    
5. Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
   - pierce
    
6. Force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock
    
7. Push upward
   "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air"
   - push up
    
8. Place or put with great energy
   "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar"
   - throw

Derived forms: thrustings

See also: thrust ahead, thruster

Type of: compel, force, gesture, jut, jut out, lay, move, obligate, oblige, penetrate, perforate, place, pose, position, project, protrude, push, put, set, stick out

Encyclopedia: Thrust