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Push   /pʊʃ/   Listen
verb
Push  v. t.  (past & past part. pushed; pres. part. pushing)  
1.
To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; opposed to draw. "Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat."
2.
To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore. "If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant,... the ox shall be stoned."
3.
To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far. " To push his fortune." "Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor." "We are pushed for an answer."
4.
To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
5.
To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.
To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.


Push  v. i.  
1.
To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.
2.
To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed. "At the time of the end shall the kind of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come against him." "War seemed asleep for nine long years; at length Both sides resolved to push, we tried our strength."
3.
To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.
To push on, to drive or urge forward; to hasten. "The rider pushed on at a rapid pace."


noun
Push  n.  A pustule; a pimple. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)


Push  n.  
1.
A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
2.
Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.
3.
An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action. "Exact reformation is not perfected at the first push." "When it comes to the push, 'tis no more than talk."
4.
The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: See Thrust.


Push  n.  A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang. (Slang)





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"Push" Quotes from Famous Books



... insisted upon it. Well, I trust my daughter. I have trusted her in greater dangers than any which can arrive through this Austrian young man. Never fear, Patsy will clear her own feet. The Princess shall have an answer to her letter, and the wooer as well, but I would not go to London to push the matter, no, not if she ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
... changes which would be ushered in by such a step. This shack, itself—no one whom he would want would, in this day, consent to live in it, and, if he should marry, his wife must be a superior woman, good looking, and with the push and energy of his mother. He thought of all she had meant to his father; and there was Nellie, not to be spoken of in the same breath, yet making Bert Mall a good wife. What a cook she was! Memories of her ...
— Dust • Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
... too much exhausted by the contest to push their victory to the loss of the independence of these cities, but they assisted their allies, the Lacedaemonians, with twenty triremes against Athens, under Hermocrates, while Rhodes furnished a still further re-enforcement, under Dorieus. ...
— Ancient States and Empires • John Lord
... between the hills, with guns on either side; The boldest man might well turn pale before that pass he tried, For if the first attack should fail then every hope was gone: But French looked once, and only once, and then he said, 'Push on!' The gunners plied their guns amain; the hail of shrapnel flew; With rifle fire and lancer charge their squadrons back we threw; And through the pass between the hills we swept in furious fray, And French was through to Kimberley to drive ...
— Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
... home, bright berry? What are your habits? Do you push through the snow on the steppes? Do you flower in the first thaw of spring, set in full summer and ripen when the snow falls again? I think so; you have the savour of snow. I hope so; I picture the snowfields stained with your ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 • Various


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