Thrusting Synonyms and Antonyms

Press or force
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shoving
  2. throwing
  3. squeezing
  4. pushing
  5. stuffing
  6. poking
Antonyms:
  1. pulling
Penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stabbing
  2. sticking
  3. ramming
  4. piercing
  5. interjecting
  6. walloping
  7. stressing
  8. plunging
  9. punching
  10. sensing
  11. forcing
  12. shoving
  13. protruding
  14. pressuring
  15. sinking
  16. transfixing
  17. driving
  18. pressing
  19. pointing
  20. pushing
  21. running
  22. penetrating
  23. lunging
  24. jabbing
  25. poking
  26. intruding
  27. interposing
  28. impelling
  29. charging
  30. butting
  31. attacking
  32. assaulting
  33. digging
Antonyms:
  1. retaliating
  2. returning
Make a thrusting forward movement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. assailing
  2. shoving
  3. hurtling
  4. ramming
  5. hurling
  6. pushing
  7. propelling
  8. assaulting
  9. driving
  10. lunging
To push or drive quickly and forcefully:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pushing
A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. jab
  2. jabbing
  3. poke
  4. poking
  5. thrust

Thrusting Sentence Examples

  • By thrusting it towards the net, your player takes a shot.

  • Avoid thrusting your behind into the air.

  • The help of the engraver had early been called in; and tens of thousands of children looked with terror and delight on execrable copperplates, which represented Christian thrusting his sword into Apollyon, or writhing in the grasp of Giant Despair.

  • They have pushed through the lumpy earth and stand unmoved by the thrusting wind, the bites of cold air.

  • The movements of the pollen-masses may readily be seen with the naked eye by thrusting the point of a needle into the base of the anther, when the disks adhere to the needle as they would do to the antenna of an insect, and may be withdrawn.

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