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WordBand 4.5–5.5Core (NGSL)
push
/ˈpʊʃ/
verb1 of 2
to force something away from you
- “A lack of food and money pushes people to crime.”Tatoeba
- “The adult tooth underneath pushed out the loose baby tooth.”Tatoeba
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noun2 of 2
An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))