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pushing up against

pushing up against is the present participle and gerund 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 pushing up against

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

Words near pushing up against in the dictionary

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

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