thrust down Smith-Hall thrust down: dētrudo, si, sum, 3: to t. down and confine as it were in the pounding-mill, tanquam d. et compingere in pistrinum, Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 46: to t. down to the waves of the Styx, d. Stygias ad undas, Virg. Aen. 7, 773.