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Push Aside

Definition: Push Aside

Push Aside

Verb

1. Push out of the way.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Push Aside

Synonyms: brush aside (v), brush off (v), discount (v), dismiss (v), disregard (v), ignore (v), push away (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Push Aside

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disrespect

Verb: hold in disrespect; (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful; Adjective:, be discourteous; treat with disrespect;Noun: set down, put down, browbeat.

Neglect

Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Push Aside

English words defined with "push aside": To cast aside. (references)

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Use in Literature: Push Aside

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

She saw him push aside the bar of the grating, and glide into the garden.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: Push Aside

Language Translations for "push aside"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtyj mënjanë, largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean, whiffle), hedh poshtë (censure, confute, contradict, controvert, decline, demolish, detrude, disclaim, disprove, dispute, knock out, rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, sweep away, turn down, wave aside). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off), ‏أنحاه جانبا (put away, step aside). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отстранявам (chase, cut away, eliminate, extirpate, fend off, get away, keep away, obviate, preclude, push away, reject, remove, repel, send off, shake, sweep away, take out, weed out), не обръщам внимание на (disregard, forget, ignore, neglect, put away, shuck), изтласквам (eject, push out, shove out, vent). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

' (climb, cling to, crawl, dig up, hold on to, pull, rake, snatch, to strip). (various references)

   

Czech

  

odstrèit (push away, push forward, put aside, set aside, set back). (various references)

   

French

  

rejeter, mettre côté, écarter (put aside). (various references)

   

German

  

zur seite stoßen, zur seite schieben (brush aside, move aside, part), zur seite drängen (thrust aside), einfach abtun, beiseite stoßen, beiseite schieben (move aside, set aside, thrust aside, to brush aside). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félretol (to shunt, to throw back). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scostare (move aside, stand aside, stray from), accantonare (accommodate, appropriate, put away, set aside, shelve, shunt). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

跳ね除ける (to push aside), 押し退ける (to brush aside, to push aside), 押し寄せる (to advance on, to push aside), 押し分ける (to push aside). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おしのける (to brush aside, to push aside), おしわける (to push aside), おしよせる (to advance on, to push aside), はねのける (to brush or thrust aside, to get rid of, to push aside, to remove). (various references)

   

Manx

  

seiy gys un cheu (shove aside). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ushpay asideay

   

Russian 

  

спихивать (push down). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odgurnuti (move off, push away, shove away), gurnuti u stranu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apartar con la mano, apartar a empujones. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

undantränga (force aside, force out of its place, supplant, take the place of), skjuta bort (pick off). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

відсувати (move back, move off, push back), відпихати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Push Aside

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

depulso. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Push Aside

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-p-s-s-u"

-2 letters: aphesis, aphides, apsides, diphase, upsides.

-3 letters: adieus, aphids, asides, aspish, daises, dashes, dashis, dassie, dipsas, dishes, disuse, hasped, hissed, issued, pashed, pashes, passed, paused, pauses, phased, phases, phasis, pished, pishes, pissed, pseuds, pushed, pushes, sadhes, sadhus, sashed, sepias, shades, shaped, shapes, spades, spahis, upases, upside.

-4 letters: adieu, aides, aphid, aphis, apish, apses, apsis.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-p-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: duennaships, euphausiids.

 

+4 letters: underemphasis.

 

+5 letters: diaphanousness, philadelphuses, pseudepigraphs.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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