push up

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Verb	1.	push up - push upward push, force - move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" uplift - lift up or elevate boost up - push upward; "She pushed up her children when the policeman came by"
	2.	push up - push upward; "The front of the trains that had collided head-on thrust up into the air" thrust jut, jut out, protrude, stick out, project - extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" thrust - force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock

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vt sep

(lit) → hinaufschieben; (quickly, violently) → hinaufstoßen; window → hochschieben/-stoßen ? daisy

(fig: = raise, increase) → hochtreiben, hochdrücken

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