upthrust
Americannoun
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a thrust in an upward direction.
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a sudden and forceful upward movement, as of a nation's economy or the stock market.
Market observers are hoping the upthrust can be sustained.
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Geology. an upheaval.
verb (used without object)
noun
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an upward push or thrust
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geology a violent upheaval of the earth's surface
Etymology
Origin of upthrust
Example Sentences
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There is the “Rescue Team, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, UK,” standing atop the upthrust prow of a rescue boat while a yellow copter hovers overhead, dangling a rescued man on a wire.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
The scenery would have been enough to draw me to the cordillera, with its upthrust layers of multicolored sedimentary rock set around a crater that’s encircled by rugged river canyons.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2016
Then look up to where the horizon line should be to find the Himalayas towering like upthrust fangs, each snowy crag or escarpment crisply articulated, every draped and drifting cloud bank ethereal.
From Time ● Nov. 18, 2014
Brass players stood like sentinels along the edge of an upthrust triangle of grass against the backdrop of a New York cityscape gilded by the late sun.
From Washington Post
It looked like an enormous auger shell, or a unicorn’s horn upthrust from the earth, and was said to stand at over six hundred feet.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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