thrust

For the verb: "to thrust"

Simple Past:	thrust
Past Participle:	thrust

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
thrust/θrʌst/

▶verb (past and past part. thrust)

• 1 push suddenly or violently in the specified direction.

• 2 (of a thing) extend so as to project conspicuously.

• 3 (thrust something on/upon) impose something unwelcome on.

▶noun

• 1 a sudden or violent lunge or attack.

• 2 the principal purpose or theme of a course of action or line of reasoning: anti-Americanism became the main thrust of their policy.

• 3 the propulsive force of a jet or rocket engine.

  ■ the lateral pressure exerted by an arch or other support in a building.

• 4 (also thrust fault) Geology a reverse fault of low angle, with older strata displaced horizontally over newer.

– origin ME: from ON thrýsta; perh. rel. to L. trudere ‘to thrust’.