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thrust
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)
- (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
- A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
- The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To make advance with force.
- (transitive) To force something upon someone.
- (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.
- (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
- (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
- And thrust between my father and the god.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero
- 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
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bombardment
English
Etymology
bombard +? -ment
Noun
bombardment (countable and uncountable, plural bombardments)
- the act of bombing, especially towns or cities
- heavy artillery fire
- (physics) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bombardment.
Derived terms
- Late Heavy Bombardment
Translations
See also
- bombard
- bombarded
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