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Pushing   /pˈʊʃɪŋ/   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."


adjective
Pushing  adj.  Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.





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"Pushing" Quotes from Famous Books



... good; for Mrs. Gray, good-humoured and tractable in general, could sometimes perform the high part in a matrimonial duet. Having much more confidence in his wife's good intentions than her prudence, he lost no time in pushing into the parlour, to take the matter into his own hands. Here he found his helpmate at the head of the whole militia of the sick lady's apartment, that is, wet nurse, and sick nurse, and girl of all work, engaged in violent dispute with two strangers. The ...
— The Surgeon's Daughter • Sir Walter Scott
... pushing away a place in the grass; and Cerinthy Ann took off her bonnet, and threw it among the clover, exhibiting to view her black hair, always trimly arranged in shining braids, except where some glossy curls fell over the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
... made any preparations for leaving his place. Mr. Hamilton Fynes was seated at a table covered with papers, but he was leaning back as though he had been or was still asleep. The station-master stepped forward, and as he did so the attendant came hurrying out to the platform, and, pushing back the porters, called to ...
— The Illustrious Prince • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... different to when we saw it last, but it was a mild balmy winter, with primroses and cuckoo-pints pushing in the valleys, and here and there a celandine pretending that ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... indefinite, because it is nearer and more like the infinite, of which he is made the image:—for even we are infinite, even in our finiteness infinite, as the Father in his infinity. In many caterpillars there is a large empty space in the head, the destined room for the pushing forth of the 'antennae' of its ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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