PUSH THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does push through mean? 

• PUSH THROUGH (verb)
  The verb PUSH THROUGH has 1 sense:

1. break out

  Familiarity information: PUSH THROUGH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUSH THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Break out

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break through; come out; erupt; push through

Context example:

The tooth erupted and had to be extracted

Hypernyms (to "push through" is one way to...):

appear (come into sight or view)

Verb group:

erupt (appear on the skin)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "push through"):

dehisce (burst or split open)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Then he tried to push through, but it grew thicker and thicker, and he was in despair.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Push through, and you will understand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)