Vocabulary
Thrust
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
push suddenly or violently in a specified direction.
Urdu meaning
لاگو کرنا، زور کا دھکا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Abruptly, thousands of complex civil suits have been thrust upon the already burdened district judiciary in Karachi.
- Pakistan was thrust into the conflict when the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and Pakistan became a Nato supply route.
- The PIA flight over the GB mountains and then the Punjab plains thrust one back into an oven of urban congestion and an on-going political inferno.
- For us, any future thrust towards attracting cutting-edge nature financing, such as through green, blue or nature bonds, must be driven by this philosophy.
- Both military and civilian governments had resisted the shift to avoid the public fallout, until the ongoing IMF funding programme thrust it on the current administration as a key structural policy reform to be implemented by June 2026.
Synonyms
shove, push, propel, impel, send, press, drive, plunge, stick, force, shoot
Antonyms
descend, decrease, dissuade, repress
Curator example
“she thrust her hands into her pockets”
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