{
    "term": "thrust",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "thrust",
            "heSheIt": "thrusts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "thrust",
        "pastParticiple": "thrust",
        "ingForm": "thrusting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to push something/somebody suddenly or violently in a particular direction; to move quickly and suddenly in a particular direction",
            "sensetop": "thrust something/somebody/yourself + adv/prep.+ adv./prep.",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He thrust the baby into my arms and ran off.",
                    "contextForm": "thrust something/somebody/yourself + adv/prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She thrust her hands deep into her pockets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He tends to thrust himself forward too much."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her chin was thrust forward aggressively."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She thrust past him angrily and left.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He thrust a piece of paper at me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A microphone was thrust through the curtains."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She thrust her way through the dense undergrowth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He thrust a handkerchief out to her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My mother thrust the newspaper back into her bag."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She suddenly thrust out her arm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mike thrust her towards the staircase."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["deep", "deeply", "hard"],
                "preposition": ["at", "into"],
                "phrases": ["thrust your way"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to make a sudden, strong forward movement at somebody with a weapon, etc.",
            "sensetop": "thrust (at somebody) (with something)thrust something at somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He thrust at me with a knife.",
                    "contextForm": "thrust (at somebody) (with something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a thrusting movement"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She thrust the poker at her attacker with all her force.",
                    "contextForm": "thrust something at somebody"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["deep", "deeply", "hard"],
                "preposition": ["at", "into"],
                "phrases": ["thrust your way"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to try to force somebody to listen to and accept your opinions in a way that they find annoying",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "People are sick of having advertising rammed down their throats."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θrʌst/",
                "audio": "th/thrust/thrust__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θrʌsts/",
                "audio": "th/thrust/thrusts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈθrʌstɪŋ/",
                "audio": "th/thrust/thrusting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θrʌst/",
                "audio": "th/thrust/thrust__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θrʌsts/",
                "audio": "th/thrust/thrusts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈθrʌstɪŋ/",
                "audio": "th/thrust/thrusting__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (as a verb): from Old Norse thrýsta; perhaps related to Latin trudere ‘to thrust’. The noun is first recorded (early 16th cent.) in the sense ‘act of pressing’."
}