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push aside

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Verb1.push aside - push out of the way
push, force - move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
2.push aside - bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"
cold-shoulder, slight - pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"
reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"
discredit - cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"
shrug off - minimize the importance of, brush aside; "Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points"
pass off - disregard; "She passed off the insult"
flout, scoff - treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"
turn a blind eye - refuse to acknowledge; "He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office"
laugh away, laugh off - deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it; "She laughs away all these problems"
disoblige - ignore someone's wishes
Translations
? push aside
vt sepzur Seite schiebenor beiseiteschieben; (quickly, violently) → zur Seite stoßenor beiseitestoßen; (fig) problems, suggestionseinfach abtun; rivalzur Seite drängen


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be asked mechanically, as he saw the Hostess push aside a large sheet of paper.
But now he may be no better than a Dissenter, and want to push aside my son on pretence of doctrine.
I chanced to push aside a branch, and by so doing suddenly disclosed to my view a scene which even now I can recall with all the vividness of the first impression.
 
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