to push away
37
2.0
- phrasal verb
- /pʊʃ əˈweɪ/
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apartar
- Slowly, several of the guests lower their soup spoons and push their bowls away.
I'm focused my brain on squeezing the glutes, pushing the feet away, et cetera.
- I'm focused my brain on squeezing the glutes, pushing the feet away, et cetera.
- Yeah, it connects with Izzy, but it actually pushes Izzy back away from the overhand right.
- I just, I just tried to like fight and push her away.
- And this robot is now in my home and I push it away.
- Meaning in the moment I push something away from me.
- You can just pull it out and sort of push the box away.
- That's what cats are doing by trying to push you away.
- So you're saying how you learn this thing, there's this connection between your stomach and the brain, and you get this exhale and look for it, time it, push the plate away.
- So there is a force pushing away the faraway galaxies faster and faster with time, and that's something that gravity cannot explain.
- You need to just take a moment, push it away, automate that process.
- And the farther away a Raisin is from it, the faster it looks like it's being pushed away from the Raisin that you are.
Examples
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When he tried to hug her, she pushed away with her hands.
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When he finished eating, he pushed the plate away, lighting a cigarette.
Fiction book (1994) -
You do not have to push me away any more.
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And now you push away using your fingers.
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I'm using my leg to push you away, or I can use the tip of my feet to create distance.
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I was there... when everyone rushed in and they pushed me away.
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"I am fine." Eliza pushed away from the door, determined to control her shaking limbs.
Fiction book (1994) -
Edwina smiled happily as she pushed away a lock of her dark, shining hair.
Fiction book (1991) -
After he made the rude comment, she pushed away her chair from the table.
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He felt overwhelmed, so he pushed away the thoughts and focused on his breathing.
Synonyms
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1.0
To move something away from you using force, often with your hands
376
1.9
To push something so it moves or opens
97
3.9
Force a person or thing to move backward in body and feeling
71
3.4
To force a person, animal, or feeling to go away
32
4.2
Force someone to leave a place
19
4.1
Force someone or something to move away from danger
16
3.2
To move something outward using force
10
4.9
Make people or things move backward by using strength and stop feelings by holding them back
7
7.0
To make someone or something go away
6
2.1
Move something or someone out of the way with your hands
6
4.2
To push something out with effort or pressure
2
4.8
Push something outward suddenly and strongly
Antonyms
How Forceful
37
2.0
33
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to reject or distance oneself' is a straightforward extension of the literal meaning of 'push' (apply force) + 'away' (to a distance): pushing something away physically maps naturally onto rejecting or keeping someone at a distance. This motion-to-social metaphor is common cross-linguistically and aligns with regular English verb+particle composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Push away has a very simple picture: you push with your hands so something moves away from you. So it means 'to move someone or something away from yourself by pushing'.