PUSH UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does push up mean? 

• PUSH UP (verb)
  The verb PUSH UP has 2 senses:

1. push upward

2. push upward

  Familiarity information: PUSH UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUSH UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Push upward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "push up" is one way to...):

force; push (move with force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "push up"):

uplift (lift up or elevate)

boost up (push upward)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Push upward

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

push up; thrust

Context example:

The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air

Hypernyms (to "push up" is one way to...):

jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out (extend out or project in space)

Verb group:

thrust (force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

Both Earth and its Moon experience what's known as tectonics, processes that push up mountains, rip apart land masses and create quakes.

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)