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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Push \Push\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Pushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pushing}.] [OE. possen, pussen, F. pousser, fr. L. pulsare, v. intens. fr. pellere, pulsum, to beat, knock, push. See {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Pursy}.]
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. --Milton.
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. --Ex. xxi. 32.
3. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far. '' To push his fortune.'' --Dryden.
Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. --Spectator.
We are pushed for an answer. --Swift.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pushing \Push"ing\, adjective Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. -- {Push"ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pushing
adjective: marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young exective"; "a pushful insurance agent"; "a pushing youth intent on getting on in the world" [syn: {aggressive}, {enterprising}, {pushful}, {pushy}]
noun: the act of applying force in order to move something away; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise" [syn: {push}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "pushing": adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, ambitious, assertive, brash, busy, busybody, driving, dynamic, enterprising, forceful, forward, go-ahead, hustling, impertinent, inquisitive, meddlesome, meddling, militant, motive, nosy, officious, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, propellant, propelling, propulsive, propulsory, prying, pulsive, pushful, pushy, self-appointed, self-asserting, self-assertive, shoving, snoopy, up-and-coming, uppish, uppity, venturesome, venturous
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