push away

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

  1. (literally) To apply a force to (an entity) such that it moves to a more distant position.
  2. (figurative) To reject intimacy; to reject friendship or romance; to refuse to accept or think about (something unpleasant).

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