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THRUST OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thrust out mean?
• THRUST OUT (verb)
The verb THRUST OUT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: THRUST OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Push to thrust outward
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "thrust out" is one way to...):
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
The bow-man pulled back the bolt of the door, and thrust out the headpiece at the end of the bow.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He said, “they saw my stick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that some unhappy man must be shut up in the cavity.”
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I saw the Russian, Ivan, who thrust out my father's eyes, lay the lash of his dog-whip upon thee and beat thee like a dog.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Challenger thrust out his aggressive chin until he was all beard and hat-rim.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No hard surface collided with the tender little nose he thrust out tentatively before him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
One of our boys laid his head in his mother's lap to be out of harm's way, and little Agnes (our eldest child) left her doll in a chair to represent her, and thrust out her little heap of golden curls from between the window-curtains, to see what happened next.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
What is it that they thrust out through the postern door?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It will be a great day, for the Russians will be killed, the land will be made clean, and Ivan, even Ivan who thrust out my father's eyes and laid the lash of his dog-whip upon thee, will be killed.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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