thrust

thrust is a 6-letter English word with 24 senses as noun & verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Thrist. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun & verb. Thrist.
2. past tense & past participle. of Thrust
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
5. intransitive verb. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
6. intransitive verb. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
7. intransitive verb. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. An attack; an assault.
10. noun. 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.
11. noun. The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
12. noun. the act of applying force to propel something

    "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off"

    Synonyms: drive

13. noun. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)

    "he warned me with a jab with his finger"

    "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"

    Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting

14. noun. a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument

    "one strong stab to the heart killed him"

    Synonyms: stab

15. noun. verbal criticism

    "he enlivened his editorials with barbed thrusts at politicians"

16. noun. the force used in pushing

    "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"

    "the thrust of the jet engines"

    Synonyms: push

17. verb. impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

    "She forced her diet fads on him"

    Synonyms: force

18. verb. penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument

    Synonyms: pierce

19. verb. place or put with great energy

    "She threw the blanket around the child"

    "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar"

    Synonyms: throw

20. verb. push forcefully

    "He thrust his chin forward"

21. verb. make a thrusting forward movement

    Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, lunge

22. verb. press or force

    "Stuff money into an envelope"

    "She thrust the letter into his hand"

    Synonyms: shove, squeeze, stuff

23. verb. push upward

    "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air"

24. verb. force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock

Synonyms

drive, jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrusting, stab, push, force, pierce, throw, hurl, hurtle, lunge, shove, squeeze, stuff

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in thrust:

struth, thurst, truths

Common word forms

thrusts, thrusted, thruster, thrustful, thrusting

Words from these letters

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