rise vs thrust

rise

verb
  • To move upwards. 

  • To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus. 

  • To leave one's bed; to get up. 

  • To attain a higher status. 

  • To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn. 

  • To have its source (in a particular place). 

  • Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase. 

  • To develop. 

  • To become erect; to assume an upright position. 

  • To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse. 

  • To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch. 

  • To be resurrected. 

  • To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light. 

  • To slope upward. 

  • To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight. 

  • To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. 

  • To go up; to ascend; to climb. 

  • To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation. 

  • To come; to offer itself. 

  • To grow upward; to attain a certain height. 

  • To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. 

  • To cause to go up or ascend. 

noun
  • An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope. 

  • The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts. 

  • A small hill; used chiefly in place names. 

  • A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group. 

  • The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence. 

  • An increase in a quantity, price, etc. 

  • The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater. 

  • The height of an arch or a step. 

thrust

verb
  • To make advance with force. 

  • To stab; to pierce; usually with through. 

  • To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. 

  • To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully. 

  • To push or drive with force; to shove. 

  • To force something upon someone. 

noun
  • A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.) 

  • An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point. 

  • The primary effort; the goal. 

  • The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine. 

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