Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

push up against

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

Syllables: push up a-gainst
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge.

Transitive verb

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, up against.

Example Sentences

"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."
"If there’s a bar for the features and performance that make a flagship phone, well, flagshippy, then the midrange Samsung Galaxy A54 5G pushes right up against it. When this $449 device is sitting on a table next to the $999 Galaxy S23 Plus, I can barely tell the two apart until I’m close enough to pick them up."

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

pushes up against (present, singular) pushing up against (participle, present) pushed up against (participle, past) pushed up against (past)

Questions

What does push up against mean?: To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge.

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