push up

See also: pushup and push-up

English

Verb

push up (third-person singular simple present pushes up, present participle pushing up, simple past and past participle pushed up)

  1. To arise or jut out from; to thrust from.
    • 2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60:
      The slab and piles will work together to resist 'ground heave' (the upward movement of the ground as it tries to push up into the box).
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