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pushed up against

pushed up against is the simple past and past participle of push up against.

Meaning of push up against

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge.
    • Beyond delivering services, Bobby brought his revolutionary nationalist theory to the job and used the opportunity to push up against the ideological bias in the government program.2016 October 25, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 36
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, up against.

Questions about pushed up against

What is pushed up against the simple past and past participle of?
Pushed up against is the simple past and past participle of push up against.

Words near pushed up against in the dictionary

  1. pushed the right buttons
  2. pushed through
  3. pushed together
  4. pushed under
  5. pushed up
  6. pushed up against
  7. pushed up daisies
  8. pushed up on
  9. pushed up the daisies
  10. pushed water uphill
  11. pushed wood

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