PUSHED

Definition: PUSHED

PUSHED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Push

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PUSHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Necessity

Verb: lie under a necessity; befated, be doomed, be destined; in for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate; n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help.

Crosswords: PUSHED

I'm tired of being pushed. (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman)

Denise pushed us out of the bathroom and Rudy doesn't have all of the shampoo rinsed out of her hair (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne)

I guess they pushed him too far. (Gremlins 2: The New Batch; writing credit: Charles S. Haas)

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered (The Prisoner; writing credit: Dennis Marks)

Mom, Dad, Patch pushed me into the fireplace (One Hundred and One Dalmatians; writing credit: Dodie Smith)

They pushed that girl in front of a train ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

I’ve been turned down, I’ve been pushed ‘round ("When Will I Be Loved"; performing artist: Linda Ronstadt)

Since you pushed my love aside (Hopelessly Devoted To You; performing artist: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How to Follow the Shepherd When You're Being Pushed Around by Sheep (reference)

• Pushed (Sevens, Week 3) (reference)

• Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home (reference)

• Pushed into the Rocks: Southern California Indian Land Tenure, 1769-1986 (reference)

• Pushed Off the Mountain: Sold Down the River (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bow of the National Science Foundation, Research Ice Breaker, NATHANIEL B. PALMER pushed into sea ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The National Science Foundation, Research Ice Breaker, NATHANIEL B. PALMER pushed into sea ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Figure 44. A buoy with a drogue used by the CHALLENGER Expedition in the Gulf Stream for current studies in 1873. The drogue acts like an underwater sail and is pushed by the current. The buoy allows visual tracking of the motion of the drogue. It was first tested off Bermuda in in 1873 in separate tests at 50 fathoms, 100 fathoms, and 600 fathoms. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

"Trenton dragging along the reefs" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows USS Trenton during the height of the storm, with her anchors dragging as she is pushed deeper into Apia Harbor. Note that she is shown with steam up. Water entering through her low hause pipes (visible at her bow) ultimately put out her fires, greatly reducing her ability to survive the wind and waves. Credit: NAVY.

Damage to the ship's starboard bow from the 29 September 1918 explosion of a mine laid by the German submarine U-117. Photographed in drydock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 1 October 1918. Note hull plating pushed into internal framing and many split seams with open rivet holes. The side armor at the top of the view does not appear to have been much distorted, if at all, by the explosion. Credit: NAVY.

Man fallen or pushed into wheel barrow. Credit: Library of Congress.

When the smoke of a tramp southward bound smeared the sky, Bruden and the collie pushed off. Credit: Library of Congress.

You pushed him in! I did not. You pushed him in. Credit: Library of Congress.

My friend, wouldn't it be easier if you turned that around and pushed it? : Naw! outa sight's ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Three people riding in two wheeled chairs pushed by two men, in wooded area, Palm Beach, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The word was discovered, and with a faint smile pushed away

And when I found the door was locked, I pulled and pushed and kicked and knocked

He even pushed as far as Embrun, and one night broke into the cathedral and stripped the sacristy

He found it and pushed it open and went in.

Two of the supports of the porch roof were pushed out so that the roof flopped down on one end.

For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide

It is by this time mere vegetable mould and undistinguishable pond shore, through which rushes and flags have pushed up.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The esophagus is the organ into which the swallowed food is pushed. (references)

The shortened intestine does not allow the bloodstream enough time to absorb nutrients from food before it is pushed out of the body as stool. (references)

Ongoing safety or efficacy trials on these compounds are showing results in the test tube and in animal studies and are rapidly being pushed forward to human studies. (references)

Business

The commoditization of hardware has pushed down margins drastically. (references)

Up to 1996, the rapid growth of the textile industry in Indonesia pushed up the domestic demand for dyestuff. (references)

AIDC was originally scheduled to be privatized by 2000; however, the deadline has been pushed back to allow the Taiwan authorities more time to evaluate potential investors. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

The officers pushed her to the ground when she refused to hand over a folder containing evidence of the original assault, including photographs of police surrounding her car. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

Nevertheless, two oil companies have pushed ahead. (references)

Mexico

The strong peso coupled with conservative fiscal and monetary policies pushed inflation below ten percent throughout 2000. The government's 2001 inflation target of 6.5 percent appears not only achievable, but also perhaps modest in view of the slow down in the larger economy and continued discipline in government spending. (references)

Human Rights

Germany

In September 2000, an Iranian family facing deportation claimed that police held the father's arms behind his back, pushed his head down and then held him on the ground in a manner that hindered his breathing. (references)

Bulgaria

An investigation found that Mirchev allegedly had caused the discharge of the gun when he pushed the policeman's hand, and no charges were brought in the case. (references)

Honduras

Several groups pushed for investigations into specific incidents, while others claimed to have provided public prosecutors with evidence of collusion between police elements and business leaders with regard to these murders. (references)

Indigenous People

Sri Lanka

Some Veddas still complain that they are being pushed off of their land. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

In January a Bolivian woman, Marcelina Meneses, and her 10-month-old Argentine son were insulted, then were pushed or fell from a suburban train. (references)

Russia

On September 22, a group of youths assaulted an Israeli rabbi and three other visiting Israelis on a street in the Siberian city of Omsk; the youths pushed off the rabbi's hat and shouted Nazi slogans at the four Israelis, but no one was injured. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

In recent years, the United States has pushed Japan to foster a more pro-competitive regime in the telecommunications sector. (references)

INDONESIA

In addition, during the Wahid administration, the Government of Indonesia pushed for amendments to the central bank that would undermine Bank Indonesia's independence. (references)

Zambia

In 1991, a popular movement pushed for an end to the one-party state and adoption of multi-party democratic system. (references)

Trade

China

China's original goal of achieving a fully convertible currency by the year 2000 has been pushed back because of the Asian financial crisis. (references)

Luxembourg

Originally planned to be implemented in 2000, this Directive has tentatively been pushed back to 2010. (references)

Travel

Spain

Spain also has a very low, but rising, rate of violent crime, and victims are sometimes choked or pushed to the ground. (references)

Women

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Over a 6-month period, the man had hit and kicked his wife, hit her in the head and damaged her eyes, and pushed her into a stove causing burns to her hands and legs. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

Various union leaders and rank and file members were pushed and beaten. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "PUSHED": be pushed ♦ be pushed for money ♦ be pushed for time ♦ Hard pushed ♦ he is pushed for time ♦ pushed barge train ♦ pushed convoy ♦ pushed for time ♦ pushed tanker ♦ pushed tanker barge ♦ pushed train ♦ to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner. Additional references.

Beginning with "PUSHED": pushed-batt, pushed-towed.

Ending with "PUSHED": half-pushed, hard-pushed.

Arabic 

‏مضغوط بالوقت (pushed for time), ‏دفع بعجلة (be pushed for time). (various references)

Chinese 

推挤 (Push, Pushing). (various references)

Danish

paa den underjordiske modtagelsesstation ved transportskakten skubbes kulvognene mekanisk ind i elevatorstolene (at the shaft landing, the cars are mechanically pushed into the cage, the underground marshalling yard), tank-skubbepram (pushed tanker, tank lighter), staklager (again only from the top register, cellar, each word in turn enters the top register and is then pushed down the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, push-down store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store), skubbet baad (pushed barge), skubbekonvoj (multiple barge convoy set, pushed barge train, pushed convoy, pushed train, push-towed formation), opstikning (pushed punt, pushed up bottom, push-up), moraeneler (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), forlaengerstykket bliver trykket ned paa koblingen, som er svejset paa den oevre del af den indre cylinder og derefter fastgjort med tre stifter (the extension is pushed on to the head sleeve welded to the upper internal prop and fastened with three slotted pins), en metode til at undersoege,hvad der sker inde i en roerledning gaar ud paa i graensefladen at indsaette en solid skilleplade,som slutter taet nok i roeret til,at man kan vaere sikker paa,at den foeres af sted med samme hastighed som olien;saadanne skrabe (fitting closely enough in the pipe to make sure that it will be pushed along at the same as the oil;such devices are known as batching pigs, one way checking what is going on in a pipeline is to insert some solid separator at the interface), bundmoræne (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet). (various references)

Dutch

het verlengstuk wordt op de koppelbus gedrukt die op de bovenste bovenstijl is aangelast en met drie stiften bevestigd (the extension is pushed on to the head sleeve welded to the upper internal prop and fastened with three slotted pins), bodemmorene (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), diepbodem (pushed punt, pushed up bottom, push-up), duwbak (Pushed barge), duwconvooi (pushed convoy), duwkonvooi (multiple barge convoy set, pushed barge train, pushed convoy, pushed train, push-towed formation), duwstel (multiple barge convoy set, pushed barge train, pushed convoy, pushed train, push-towed formation), Als duwbak ingezet sleepschip (Pushed-towed barge), grondmorene (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), zielbodem (pushed punt, pushed up bottom, push-up), keileem (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), morenen afzetting (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), op de laadplaats, het ondergrondse station, worden de mijnwagens mechanisch op de kooi gedrukt (at the shaft landing, the cars are mechanically pushed into the cage, the underground marshalling yard), stapelgeheugen (again only from the top register, cellar, each word in turn enters the top register and is then pushed down the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, push-down store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store), tankduwbak (pushed tanker, tank lighter), tankduwschip (pushed tanker, tank lighter), een manier om te controleren wat zich in een pijpleiding afspeseelt is het inbrengen op het contactvlak van een massieve separator,die een zodanige passing in de pijp heeft dat hij met dezelfde s nelheid als de olie wordt voortbewogen;dergelijke hulpmidde (fitting closely enough in the pipe to make sure that it will be pushed along at the same as the oil;such devices are known as batching pigs, one way checking what is going on in a pipeline is to insert some solid separator at the interface). (various references)

Finnish

pohjamoreeni (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), työntyä (be pushed, push oneself), työntökytkye (multiple barge convoy set, pushed barge train, pushed convoy, pushed train, push-towed formation), moreeni (moraine). (various references)

French

poussai, poussés, poussées, poussâmes, poussèrent. (various references)

German

schob, angestossen. (various references)

Greek 

κυρτωμένη βάση φιάλης (pushed punt, pushed up bottom, push-up), μοραίναι βυθού (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), ωθoύμεvη συvoδεία (multiple barge convoy set, pushed barge train, pushed convoy, pushed train, push-towed formation), ωθούμενη μαούνα (pushed barge), ωθούμενη φορτηγίδα (pushed barge), φoρτηγίδα-δεξαμεvή (pushed tanker, tank lighter). (various references)

Hungarian

pénzszűkében van (to be pushed for money, to be short of cash), nincs ideje (be pushed for time, have no time, have no time to spare, to be pushed for time), le van égve (down and out, hard up, to be broke, to be broke to the world, to be hard pushed, to be hard up for money, to be on a shoestring, to be on the road, to be skint, to be stony broke), kivágódott az ajtó (the door pushed open), kevés az ideje (to be pushed for time), anyagi gondjai vannak (to be pushed for money). (various references)

Indonesian

terdorong (shoved), terdesak (forced, pressed, urged). (various references)

Italian

spinto (driven, forward, racy, risque). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

阿弥陀被り (wearing a hat pushed back on one's head), 剣山 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あみだかぶり (wearing a hat pushed back on one's head), けんざん (checking figures, meeting, seeing, verification of accounts). (various references)

Korean 

미는. (various references)

Pig Latin

ushedpay.(various references)

Portuguese

empurrado. (various references)

Romanian

arde cãmaşã pe el (he is pushed for time). (various references)

Russian 

выталкивать (detrude, extrude, pop, popped, throw out, thrust forth). (various references)

Spanish

un modo de comprobar el comportamiento de transporte de una tuberia es la insercion de algun separador solido en la interfase que se ajuste adecuadamente al diametro interior de la tuberia para a segurar que se desplazara con la misma velocidad que el pet (fitting closely enough in the pipe to make sure that it will be pushed along at the same as the oil;such devices are known as "batching pigs", one way checking what is going on in a pipeline is to insert some solid separator at the interface), tren empujado (backed-up train, multiple barge convoy set, pushed barge train, pushed convoy, pushed train, push-towed formation), tren de gabarras impulsado (asymmetric pushed barge train), morrena de fondo (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), gabarra-tanque (pushed tanker, tank lighter), fondo picado (pushed punt, pushed up bottom, push-up), escaso de tiempo (pushed for time), convoy empujado (multiple barge convoy set, pushed barge train, pushed convoy, pushed train, push-towed formation), barco empujado (pushed barge). (various references)

Swedish

tryckte. (various references)

Turkish

paraya sıkışmak (be pinched for money, be pressed for money, be pushed for money), sıkışmak (be cramped for space, be pinched, be pinched for time, be pressed for, be pushed, be stuck, be taken short, catch, jam, jam in, squeeze, tighten), darda olmak (be pressed for, be pushed). (various references)

Turkmen 

dyknyюmak (be pushed in). (various references)

apulsos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "PUSHED": outpushed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"PUSHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aushev, pished, Pishpek, Polshek, ponshed, poohed, poshe, poshed, Pshe, psued, Puehpd, Pughpd, Pukhov, pushe, pushey. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dupes, pseud, spued.

-2 letters: dues, dupe, dups, edhs, hued, hues, peds, pehs, puds, push, shed, sped, spud, spue, sued, supe, used.

-3 letters: due, duh, dup, edh, eds, hep, hes, hue, hup, ped, peh, pes, pud, pus, she, sue, sup, ups, use.

-4 letters: de, ed, eh, es, he, pe, sh, uh, up, us.

+2 letters: dustheap, punished, shlumped, sulphide, unshaped, uprushed.

+3 letters: dauphines, deathcups, dustheaps, judgeship, outpushed, published, purchased, schlumped, shunpiked, sulphated, sulphides, sulphured, unshipped, unsphered, upholders, upshifted.

+4 letters: duennaship, euphausiid, euphemised, judgeships, mediumship, sepulchred, superhyped, unpolished, unpunished.

+5 letters: audiophiles, copublished, delphiniums, diadelphous, duennaships, euphausiids, hesperidium, mediumships, preschedule, prudishness, pseudomorph, republished, repurchased, sepulchered, shipbuilder, studentship, sulphurised, superharden, superheated, unpublished, upholstered.