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Pushing   /pˈʊʃɪŋ/   Listen
Pushing

noun
1.
The act of applying force in order to move something away.  Synonym: push.  "The pushing is good exercise"


Push

verb
(past & past part. pushed; pres. part. pushing)
1.
Move with force,.  Synonym: force.  Antonym: pull.
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.



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"Pushing" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the French artillery. Far away, to the right, rose the churches of Talavera, while behind the hill were the British and Spanish cavalry, ready to charge should the French endeavor to turn the British left by pushing round its foot. Fifty paces from the officers of the Norfolk Rangers sat Sir Arthur Wellesley, on horseback, watching attentively through a field-glass the movements of the enemy, and at a short distance behind him were his staff. The British troops were standing in easy ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty
... man walking steadily along the running board, from the front to the back of the boat? Well, he is pushing on a long pole, and that power moves the boat against the tide. The pole reaches down to the bottom, through the shallow water. If the boat is loaded, and if the cargo is very heavy, two men push on each pole. The pole ...
— Fil and Filippa - Story of Child Life in the Philippines • John Stuart Thomson
... a bay window?" demanded Twaddles, whom no amount of pushing out of the way could subdue for long; ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School • Mabel C. Hawley
... walk leading from the front gate to the sitting-room entrance—red brick, all moss-grown, and with the tiny weeds and grasses pushing up between the bricks. In the garden proper the paths were of earth, bordered and well-defined by inch-wide boards that provided jolly tight-rope practice until grandmother came anxiously out with her oft-repeated: "Willie don't walk ...
— The Long Ago • Jacob William Wright
... of us is that higher type of man potentially. Though we can forge but little ahead of our time and generation, it is much to know that the Holy Ghost of Life is our animating breath, pushing us on to the overcoming of all obstacles. For me as an individual it is a support to feel that the principle which was never yet defeated is my principle, and that whatever the task of to-day or ...
— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King


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