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Definition of Push aside

1. Verb. Push out of the way.

2. Verb. Bar from attention or consideration. "She dismissed his advances"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Push Aside

push-down list push-down queue push-down stack push-down storage push-down store push-pull push-pull amplifier push-start push-through push-up

push-up bra push-up bras push-ups push around push aside (current term) push away push back push backs push broom push brooms

push bunt push bunts push dagger push down push factor push forward push in push off

Literary usage of Push aside

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"... and at the same time they may be selfish enough to have no scruple as to the means they may use to push aside others having the same object in view. ..."

2. Ecumenical Missionary Conference, New York, 1900 (1900)
"Let him push aside hate; let him push aside selfishness; let him push aside passion; let him push aside this that obscures his soul, and, looking down into ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"From G. schieben, to shove, as shown by Du. schuin, oblique, compared with E. shun, shunt, to push aside. G. verschieben, to put out of its place, ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"From G. schieben, to shove, as shown by Du. schuin, oblique, compared with E. shun, shunt, to push aside. G. verschieben, to put out of its place, ..."

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