Word Meanings - PUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A pustule; a pimple. Bacon.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUSH)
- Jostle
- Hustle
- push
- thrust
- jog
- jolt
- incommode
- Thrust
- Push
- drive
- force
- Dress
- shove
- impel
- urge
- Urge
- Press
- propel
- importune
- solicit
- animate
- incite
- instigate
- stimulate
- expedite
- accelerate
- despatch
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PUSH)
Related words: (words related to PUSH)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - INHIBITORY
Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. - SHOVELARD
Shoveler. - PERSUADER
One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton. - RELAXANT
A medicine that relaxes; a laxative. - PERSUADED
Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n. - IMPORTUNELY
In an importune manner. - THRUSTING
The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl. - PROPELLER
1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer. - DRIVEL
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym: - DRIVE
To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by - INCOMMODE
To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room. Syn. -- To annoy; disturb; trouble; molest; disaccomodate; inconvenience; disquiet; vex; plague. - SHOVELNOSE
The common sand shark. See under Snad. A small California shark , which is taken for its oil. A Pacific Ocean shark . A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white - DRESSINESS
The state of being dressy. - RELAXATIVE
Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n. - SOLICITUDE
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude. - JOSTLEMENT
Crowding; hustling. - IMPORTUNE
derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune - PRESSIROSTRAL
Of or pertaining to the pressirosters. - INHIBITION
A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - OFFENDRESS
A woman who offends. Shak. - HOTPRESSED
Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t. - APPRENTICESHIP
1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one). - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - HOTPRESS
To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses.