pushing aside

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To ignore, reject or subdue (something).
   • Now all is still. Sounds that had been pushed aside [during sex] now creep back into the room: the tick of the clock on the dresser; the hum of traffic from the street below.1986, Sidney Brinkley, “Passion”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 131