Incite vs Thrust - What's the difference?
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To rouse, stir up or excite.
(fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.
A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)
The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.
(figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.
(lb) To make advance with .
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(lb) To something upon someone.
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(lb) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
(lb) To push or drive with force; to shove.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Into a dungeon thrust , to work with slaves.
(lb) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:And thrust between my father and the god.
To stab; to pierce; usually with through .
As verbs the difference between incite and thrust
is that incite is to rouse, stir up or excite while thrust is to make advance with force.As a noun thrust is
an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.incite
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Verb
(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
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Noun
(en noun)- Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.
- The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"
- Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.
- Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.