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Push

verb

(past & past part. pushed; pres. part. pushing)

1.

Move with force,. Synonym: force.

2.

Press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action. Synonym: bear on.

3.

Make publicity for; try to sell (a product). Synonyms: advertise, advertize, promote. "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops"

4.

Strive and make an effort to reach a goal. Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, tug. "We have to push a little to make the deadline!" , "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

5.

Press against forcefully without moving.

6.

Approach a certain age or speed. Synonym: crowd.

7.

Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for. Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, press. "She is crusading for women's rights" , "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"

8.

Sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs).

9.

Move strenuously and with effort.

10.

Make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby. Synonym: press.

noun

1.

The act of applying force in order to move something away. Synonym: pushing. "The pushing is good exercise"

2.

The force used in pushing. Synonym: thrust. "The thrust of the jet engines"

3.

Enterprising or ambitious drive. Synonyms: energy, get-up-and-go.

4.

An electrical switch operated by pressing. Synonyms: button, push button. "The push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk"

5.

An effort to advance.

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"Push" Quotes from Famous Books

... fully told the tale of woe. He had ran upwards of eighty miles, naked except his shirt, and without food; his body nearly exhausted by fatigue, anxiety and hunger, and his limbs greviously lacerated with briers and brush. Captain Stuart, fearing lest the success of the Indians might induce them to push immediately for the settlements, thought proper to return and prepare for ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

... Grace clutched at her heart, fearing what she believed the switching on of the lights would reveal. The clerk, without loss of time, pressed the push button near the door. The room was at once flooded ...

— The Film of Fear • Arnold Fredericks

... of stabbing a soldier, the offence was aggravated in Lord Eskgrove's eyes by the fact that "not only did you murder him, whereby he was berea-ved of his life, but you did thrust, or push, or pierce, or project, or propell, the le-thall weapon through the belly-band of his regimental breeches, which were ...

— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton

... little service; one must be sure of his bearings and push boldly on and up. One is not unlike a flea upon a great shaggy beast, looking for the animal's head; or even like a much smaller and much less nimble creature,—he may waste his time and steps, and think he has reached the head when he is only upon the ...

— In the Catskills • John Burroughs

... As he passed the plebeian crowd round the petits-chevaux table—these were the days of little horses and not the modern equivalent of la boule—he threw a louis on the square marked 5, waited for the croupier to push him his winnings, seven louis and his stake on the little white horse, and walked into the baccarat room. A bank was being called for thirty louis at the ...

— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

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