Usually means: Projection or extension outward from something.
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  1. outthrust: Merriam-Webster
  2. outthrust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. outthrust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. outthrust: Vocabulary.com
  5. outthrust: Wordnik
  6. outthrust: Wiktionary
  7. outthrust: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. outthrust: Dictionary.com
  9. outthrust: Rhymezone
  10. outthrust: FreeDictionary.org
  11. outthrust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. outthrust: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (outthrust)

▸ noun:  Something that extends outwards, especially such an outcrop of rock
▸ verb:  To extend outwards

Similar:
outjut, outjutting, outpushing, overhang, outspurt, outgrowing, exsertion, outswelling, outflaring, outbreaking, more...

Opposite:
retracted, withdrawn, pulled back

Types:
promontory, headland, spit, cape, bluff, more...

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Similar:
outjut, outjutting, outpushing, overhang, outspurt, outgrowing, exsertion, outswelling, outflaring, outbreaking, more...

Opposite:
retracted, withdrawn, pulled back

Types:
promontory, headland, spit, cape, bluff, more...



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