Thesaurus.com
Thesaurus / push for
FEEDBACK

push for

See definition of push for on Dictionary.com
  • as inapprove
  • as incontend
  • as inpromote
  • as inrequire

synonyms for push for

  • accept
  • advocate
  • agree
  • authorize
  • back
  • certify
  • confirm
  • endorse
  • establish
  • license
  • okay
  • permit
  • ratify
  • recommend
  • sanction
  • sign
  • support
  • uphold
  • accede
  • accredit
  • acquiesce
  • affirm
  • assent
  • bless
  • boost
  • buy
  • charter
  • concur
  • consent
  • dig
  • empower
  • encourage
  • groove
  • maintain
  • mandate
  • pronounce
  • seal
  • second
  • validate
  • buy into
  • get behind
  • give go-ahead
  • go along with
  • hats off to
  • lap up
  • make law
  • make valid
  • sign off on
  • stump for
  • subscribe to
  • thumbs-up
Meet Grammar Coach
Write or paste your essay, email, or story into Grammar Coach and get grammar helpImprove Your Writing
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing
Write or paste your essay, email, or story into Grammar Coach and get grammar help

antonyms for push for

MOST RELEVANT
  • contradict
  • decline
  • deny
  • destroy
  • disagree
  • disallow
  • disapprove
  • discourage
  • disprove
  • dispute
  • dissuade
  • invalidate
  • oppose
  • protest
  • refuse
  • reject
  • renounce
  • repudiate
  • veto
  • condemn
  • differ
  • dissent
  • object
  • agree
  • comply
  • go along
  • hide
  • make peace
  • retreat
  • surrender
  • yield
  • abandon
  • cede
  • desert
  • give in
  • give up
  • leave
  • disallow
  • give
  • let off
  • offer
  • reply
  • stop
  • answer
  • dislike
  • have
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
QUIZ
Quiz Yourself On Sale Vs. Sell!
START THE QUIZ

How to use push for in a sentence

The sense of bearing on to the voice, or endeavoring to push the tone by any pressure whatever, should be absolutely avoided.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK
Thereupon the governor attacked him alone, and giving a violent push on the door, opened it.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUS
One Turkish Company, about a hundred strong, was making an ugly push within rifle shot of our ship.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
A resolute push for quite a short period now might reconstruct the entire basis of our collective human life.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
His only chance of ultimate recovery was to push boldly forward, and to betray no fear of failure.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
REPORT OF THE CHIEF LIBRARIAN FOR THE YEAR 1924-25GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY (NEW ZEALAND)
At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.
REPORT OF THE CHIEF LIBRARIAN FOR THE YEAR 1924-25GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY (NEW ZEALAND)
McNeil, his force now augmented by Shaffer's, resolved to push Porter to the limit, and if possible bring him to battle.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
Still, it will be healthier if we push out of this planetary system before someone else pushes in.
FEE OF THE FRONTIERHORACE BROWN FYFE
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
Choose the synonym for future
capacitor
lightning
DeLorean

WORDS RELATED TO PUSH FOR

Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.