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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

push aside en · VERB

Meanings

  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:

Forms

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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