push aside

Verb

Meaning

bar from attention or consideration

push out of the way

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ignore discount dismiss disregard disregarded cold-shoulder push back leave out sweep away brush aside brush off shrug off disregarding push away

Antonyms

report commune take a look consider note reflect

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Hypernyms

force push reject

Hyponyms

slight scoff discredit flout turn a blind eye cold-shoulder

Examples

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else. Rudolf Steiner

The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, is very disappointing to me. Nikola Tesla

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. Henry David Thoreau

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside. James Daly

She dismissed his advances Source: Internet

The firm has begun its public defense against the $105 billion hostile takeover attempt, asking shareholders to have confidence in management’s strategy and to push aside the suitor. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

push and shove push apart push around push aside information push away push back