push aside en · VERB
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pushes aside | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| pushed aside | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pushed aside | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| pushing aside | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |