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push aside
verb as in dismiss
Strong matches
verb as in jostle
Example Sentences
To become prime minister, Allawi will have to figure out how to push aside the incumbent, Nouri al Maliki.
He had to push aside the ivy which hung from the walls in great ropes, and only found the keyhole after a hurried search.
Kate would be quite in earnest; but Mrs. Greenow would push aside all that her niece said as though it were worth nothing.
It was in her at that moment to blaze into anger, to speak loud protesting words, to push aside her plate and dash from the room.
Push aside the heavy leather flap, and the noisy little piazza, with all Naples beyond, are immediately things of the remote past.
Donald, eager to comply, made ready to push aside the top of the clasp, and then he resolved to do no such thing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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