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pousser.

to push

7 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/pu.se/

  1. to push

    transitive
    pousser dans ses derniers retranchements
    pousser le bouchon

  2. to urge on, encourage

    figuratively
    pousser quelqu'un à faire quelque chose

  3. to grow

    intransitive
    se sentir pousser des ailes
    L'arbre pousse vite.

  4. to spring up, to sprout

    figuratively · intransitive
    Les Starbucks poussent comme des champignons ici.

  5. to utter

    pousser un cri

  6. to move aside

    informal · reflexive
    Pousse-toi !
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old French, inherited from Latin pulsāre, from pulsus (“a push”) (and frequentative of pellō). Compare the prefixed verb expulser, a borrowing from Latin.

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