Word Meanings - THRUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Thrist. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THRUST)

• Jostle
• Hustle
• push
• thrust
• jog
• jolt
• incommode
• Obtrude
• Force
• interfere
• intrude
• Push
• Press
• drive
• impel
• shove
• press against
• propel
• butt
• urge
• expedite
• accelerate
• reduce
• Reach
• Extend
• stretch
• obtain
• arrive at
• attain
• gain
• grasp
• penetrate
• strain
• aim
• Stab
• Pierce
• transfix

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of THRUST)

• Relax
• inhibit
• persuade
• entice
• allure
• solicit
• touch
• skim
• graze
• free
• liberate
• ease
• avoid
• relieve

Related words: (words related to THRUST)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• SHOVELARD
  Shoveler.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• ATTAIN
  atteindre, fr. L. attingere; ad + tangere to touch, reach. See 1. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson. 3. To get
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• THRUSTING
  The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• PROPELLER
  1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• INCOMMODE
  To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room. Syn. -- To annoy; disturb; trouble; molest; disaccomodate; inconvenience; disquiet; vex; plague.
• SHOVELNOSE
  The common sand shark. See under Snad. A small California shark , which is taken for its oil. A Pacific Ocean shark . A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.