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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PUSHING, ppr. Pressing; driving; urging forward.
1. a. Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; vigorous.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of applying force in order to move something away; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise" [syn: push, pushing]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1677 1. marked by ambition, energy, enterprise, and initiative 2. marked by tactless forwardness or officious intrusiveness

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 pushy; aggressively ambitious. 2 colloq. having nearly reached (a specified age). Derivatives: pushingly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Push Push, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pushing.] [OE. possen, pussen, F. pousser, fr. L. pulsare, v. intens. fr. pellere, pulsum, to beat, knock, push. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Pursy.] 1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw. Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat. --Milton. 2. To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore. If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, . . . the ox shall be stoned. --Ex. xxi. 32. 3. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far. `` To push his fortune.'' --Dryden. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. --Spectator. We are pushed for an answer. --Swift. 4. To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass. 5. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pushing Push"ing, a. Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. -- Push"ing*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that someone is pushing a particular age, you mean that they are nearly that age. (INFORMAL) Pushing 40, he was an ageing rock star. = almost, going on PREP

Moby Thesaurus

adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, ambitious, assertive, brash, busy, busybody, driving, dynamic, enterprising, forceful, forward, go-ahead, hustling, impertinent, inquisitive, meddlesome, meddling, militant, motive, nosy, officious, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, propellant, propelling, propulsive, propulsory, prying, pulsive, pushful, pushy, self-appointed, self-asserting, self-assertive, shoving, snoopy, up-and-coming, uppish, uppity, venturesome, venturous