PUSH ON meaning: Continue despite difficulties or resistance - OneLook

Usually means: Continue despite difficulties or resistance.

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push on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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push on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (push on)

▸ verb: (idiomatic) To persist, persevere.
▸ verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, on.

Similar:

press on, plough on, push forward, push, push through, persevere, plug away, stick it out, urge, keep on truckin', more...

Opposite:

pull, drag, tug, haul

Phrases:

to push on, push up on, Push the Feeling On, push on the radio, to push someone on, more...

Adjectives:

stay at home, flat out, next level, cut down, far out, close to the wind, every second, frontside, up in the air, not out, each way

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Similar:

press on, plough on, push forward, push, push through, persevere, plug away, stick it out, urge, keep on truckin', more...

Opposite:

pull, drag, tug, haul

Phrases:

to push on, push up on, Push the Feeling On, push on the radio, to push someone on, push on someone, push back on, push it on to someone, more...

Adjectives:

stay at home, flat out, next level, cut down, far out, close to the wind, every second, frontside, up in the air, not out, each way

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