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Push back   /pʊʃ bæk/   Listen
Push back

verb
1.
Cause to move back by force or influence.  Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, repel, repulse.  "Push back the urge to smoke" , "Beat back the invaders"






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"Push back" Quotes from Famous Books



... moist place put a few Jack-in-the pulpits. This flower is much like a child's jack-in-the-box. It is so different from most of our plants that it has the effect of the joker in a pack of cards. Push back the flap over Jack's face and you will see a club like a policeman's billy. Along this club the inconspicuous flowers are borne. Later, in the fall, the fruit forms, and inside, instead of rather uninteresting flowers, are ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw



Words linked to "Push back" :   offense, attract, force, offence, push, offensive



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