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Definition of Push back
1. Verb. Cause to move back by force or influence. "Beat back the invaders"
Related verbs: Drive
Generic synonyms: Force, Push
Derivative terms: Drive, Drive, Repulsive, Repulse, Repulsion
Antonyms: Attract
2. Noun. The act of forcing the enemy to withdraw.
Definition of Push back
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of pushback) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Push Back
Literary usage of Push back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It is a brain function to push back almost the entire force of this accumulated
impulse and permit only a little of it to enter into real action — ie, ..."
2. The Design of Mine Structures by Milo Smith Ketchum (1912)
"The coal may be dumped from the mint cars (a) by push back tipples, ... (a) Push
Back Dump.—With a push back tipple the car is run to the tipple horns and ..."
3. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... posed to push back the walls of the Tuileries, but the architect, out of
patience with this jesting, interfered, and M. Chenavard, disappointed in his ..."
4. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"'I can open the blue heaven with looking, and push back the doors of day a little,
and see - God knows what 1 One of these days I shall slip through. ..."
5. A General Report on the Physiography of Maryland by Cleveland Abbe (1898)
"... was lowered and this stream began to push back its drainage basin. Beaver Dam
creek also felt the effects of the revival, and would have done battle ..."
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