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Definition of Push away
1. Verb. Push out of the way.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Push Away
Literary usage of Push away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language to which is Appended an English by Lorrin Andrews (1865)
"See PAKE, to push away. push away ; to allow tn escape. ... See PAKI and PAKE,
to resist; to push away. To be hard against; to resist; to push; ..."
2. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"... to push away repeatedly; to push one against another. Cf. tue, to kick with
the foot; to strike against a thing. Hawaiian—kuke, to drive or force away; ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Language of Mota, Sugarloaf Island, Banks' Islands, with by Robert Henry Codrington, John Palmer (1896)
"... scrape out, grate, the hard meat of cocoa-nut with vin-gar. Fij. kora. rowo,
push away (with a stick) the fire from that tree there ; о sul te ..."
4. The Microscope,: Its History, Construction, and Applications: Being a by Jabez Hogg (1887)
"... a species at least six times their own size;" and Mr. Barkas states that he
hu teen them " push away particles of foreign matter, and that with the ..."
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