to thrust
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8.9
- verb
- /θrʌst/
- Specialized
- During the eruption, lava was thrust from the volcano into the surrounding landscape.
Examples
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The tectonic plates collided, causing one to thrust upward, forming a new mountain range.
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Two steel girders are thrust into the soil and screwed in place.
Fiction book (1992) -
Without warning, mountains thrust up around us, pinching in the current.
Fiction book (2001) -
Mountains thrust forth from the molten darkness of the earth.
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"I can see a pier thrusting into the foamy dark Atlantic Ocean."
Fiction book (1992) -
Only here and there did some lone, steaming volcano thrust high enough to reach open sky, daring to split the driving waves.
Fiction book (1990) -
The uplifted sandstone ridges to the north looked as though they'd sprouted from a ghost world; they thrust up raggedly in blue-white light and shadow.
Fiction book (1992) -
Pushed by the underlying mantle plume and the thickened crust created by the enormous fires, the land is thrust well above sea level and capped by ice.
Academic text (2002) -
Mesas in red, tan, and purple thrust out of the red-tan desert, all dotted with darker juniper and piñon.
Fiction book (1999) -
As the heating process continued, magma began to thrust into the cracks of the surrounding rock.
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.7
An attack in fencing where you lunge forward, keeping your back leg straight and your sword arm outstretched
Surface Forms
Etymology
In geology, thrust keeps the sense of a strong 'push' when rock or molten material is forced into other layers. So geologists call rock that has been pushed into existing ground a thrust.