Word.ws English Dictionary

push away

push away verb: to apply a force to (an entity) such that it moves to a more distant position.

Verb

push away (third-person singular simple present pushes away, present participle pushing away, simple past and past participle pushed away)

  1. (literally, transitive) To apply a force to (an entity) such that it moves to a more distant position.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To reject intimacy; to reject friendship or romance; to refuse to accept or think about (something unpleasant).
    • I think... I might've... failed Pomni. Just like I failed Jax. Try too hard to get on their good side, and then I just... end up pushing them away! And then they end up hating me!2025 August 15, Gooseworx, “They All Get Guns” (18:32 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 6, spoken by Ragatha (Amanda Hufford)

push away meaning in Kannada

push away in Kannada

ಗದಮು

Forms of push away

third-person singular presentpushes away
present participlepushing away
past participlepushed away
pastpushed away

Questions about push away

What does push away mean?
Push away means to apply a force to (an entity) such that it moves to a more distant position.
What is push away in Kannada?
Push away in Kannada is ಗದಮು. See Push away meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is push away?
Push away is a verb.
What is the past tense of push away?
The past tense of push away is pushed away.

Words near push away in the dictionary

  1. push against an open door
  2. push along
  3. push and shove
  4. push around
  5. push aside
  6. push away
  7. push back
  8. push backs
  9. push bicycle
  10. push bike
  11. push biked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: push away (page history and authors); push away (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-push away.wav.

Cite this entry: “push away.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/push_away. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.