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push one's way

push one's way verb: to make one's way by pushing.

Verb

push one's way (third-person singular simple present pushes one's way, present participle pushing one's way, simple past and past participle pushed one's way)

  1. (idiomatic) to make one's way by pushing.
    • As soon as we had come to a stand in Kamina Station, a swarm of porters pushed their way into the compartment to get my luggage. I selected one, and ordered the others out, and then detrained.1958 February, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 125

Forms of push one's way

third-person singular presentpushes one's way
present participlepushing one's way
past participlepushed one's way
pastpushed one's way

Questions about push one's way

What does push one's way mean?
Push one's way means to make one's way by pushing.
What part of speech is push one's way?
Push one's way is a verb.
What is the past tense of push one's way?
The past tense of push one's way is pushed one's way.

Words near push one's way in the dictionary

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

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