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push on

push on verb: to persist, persevere.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To persist, persevere.
    • The rider, to whom the paths of these wilds seemed intimately known, pushed on at a rapid pace, managing, with much dexterity, to chuse the safest route, […]1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and...
    • The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262
    Synonyms:
    press on
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, on.
    • Push on the door if it doesn't open automatically.

push on meaning in Telugu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

push on in Telugu

to push on, move forward
జారుడు jāruḍu

push on in Malayalam

continue one's journey, press on, carry on
ധൃതിയിൽ മുന്നോട്ടുപായുക, ദ്രുതഗതിയിൽ പോകുക, യാത്രതുടരുക, മുന്നേറുക, മുന്നോട്ടുപോവുക, മുമ്പോട്ടുപോവുക

push on in Sanskrit

to push on, drive forward, drive before one's self or away, carry off
कालयति kāláyati

Synonyms of push on

Forms of push on

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

Questions about push on

What does push on mean?
Push on means to persist, persevere.
What is push on in Telugu?
Push on in Telugu is జారుడు (jāruḍu). See Push on meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is push on?
Push on is a verb.
What is the past tense of push on?
The past tense of push on is pushed on.

Words near push on in the dictionary

  1. push net
  2. push nets
  3. push notification
  4. push notifications
  5. push off
  6. push on
  7. push one's luck
  8. push one's way
  9. push one's way in
  10. push out
  11. push over

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: push on (page history and authors); జారుడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); push on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); कालयति (Sanskrit) (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.

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