different between provoke vs thrust

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French provoquer, from Old French, from Latin pr?voc?re. Doublet of provocate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???v??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???vo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

provoke (third-person singular simple present provokes, present participle provoking, simple past and past participle provoked)

1. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
   • Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

2. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
   • 1881, John Burroughs, Pepacton

     To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
3. (obsolete) To appeal.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (bring about a reaction): bring about, discompose, egg on, engender, evoke, grill, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, rouse, set off, stir up, whip up; see also Thesaurus:incite

Derived terms

• provocation
• provocative

Related terms

• evoke
• invoke
• provocateur
• revoke

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijan?, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

thrust (countable and uncountable, plural thrusts)

1. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

2. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)

3. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.

4. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.

Synonyms

• (push, stab, or lunge forward): break, dart, grab
• (force generated by propulsion): lift, push
• (primary effort or goal): focus, gist, point

Translations

Verb

thrust (third-person singular simple present thrusts, present participle thrusting, simple past and past participle thrust or thrusted)

1. (intransitive) To make advance with force.

2. (transitive) To force something upon someone.

3. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

4. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
5. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero

     And thrust between my father and the god.

6. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

Synonyms

• (advance with force): attack, charge, rush
• (force upon someone): compel, charge, force
• (push out or extend rapidly and powerfully): dart, reach, stab

Translations

Anagrams

• 'struth, Hurtts, struth, thurst, truths