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push out

push out verb: to force (someone) to leave a group.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To force (someone) to leave a group.
    • One key imponderable is the attitude of the companies that will no longer have a role in the business. It is worth noting here that several have already thrown the towel in or been gently pushed out, such as Stagecoach and National Express.2024 July 10, Christian Wolmar, “The future of the rail franchises is certainly uncertain”, in RAIL, number 1013, page 50
  2. (transitive) To extrude.
  3. (intransitive) To travel away from shore in a watercraft by physical effort.
    • The last of the morning flight of noisy wawas going fieldwards were streaming from the water when I pushed out in the canoe […]1914, Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Ben James Worman, Outing Magazine: The Outdoor Magazine of Human Interest, page 14

Noun

push out (plural push outs)

  1. In nine ball pool, an optional shot after a legal break shot where a player is allowed to hit any ball first, or not any, as well as not hit a rail, and the opponent can choose who shoots the next shot.

push out meaning in Tamil and Kannada

push out in Tamil

வெளியே தள்ளு, வெளித்தள்ளு

push out in Kannada

ಹೊರಗೆಡೆಹು, ಹೊರಕೆಡವು, ಹೊರಗೆಡವು, ಹೊರದೂಡು, ಹೊರನೂಕು, ಹೊರನೂಂಕು

Forms of push out

Verb
third-person singular presentpushes out
present participlepushing out
past participlepushed out
pastpushed out
Noun
pluralpush outs

Questions about push out

What does push out mean?
Push out means to force (someone) to leave a group.
What is push out in Tamil?
Push out in Tamil is வெளியே தள்ளு, வெளித்தள்ளு. See Push out meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is push out?
Push out can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of push out?
The past tense of push out is pushed out.

Words near push out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: push out (page history and authors); push out (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); push out (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.

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