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pushing forward

pushing forward is the present participle and gerund of push forward.

Meaning of push forward

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, forward.
  2. (intransitive) To continue to act or do something, especially with a lot of effort
  3. (transitive) To reschedule (an event) for an earlier date.
    Synonyms:
    advance, prepone

Questions about pushing forward

What is pushing forward the present participle and gerund of?
Pushing forward is the present participle and gerund of push forward.

Words near pushing forward in the dictionary

  1. pushing aside
  2. pushing away
  3. pushing back
  4. pushing daisies
  5. pushing down
  6. pushing forward
  7. pushing in
  8. pushing into the long grass
  9. pushing it
  10. pushing off
  11. pushing on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pushing forward (page history and authors); push forward (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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