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push about

B2 informal separable transitive
In simple words

To treat someone badly by bullying them or telling them what to do all the time.

Literal meaning: To physically push someone around a space — extended to treating them however one pleases.

Meanings

1 B2 idiomatic informal

To treat someone in a bullying or domineering way.

"She was tired of being pushed about by her supervisor and decided to complain to HR."

Grammar: separable
Usage notes

Chiefly British English. Interchangeable with 'push around'. Often used in contexts where someone refuses to be treated this way: 'I won't be pushed about'.

Commonly used with

people staff employees others weaker people

Forms

Base
push about
I/you/we/they
3rd person
pushes about
he/she/it
Past simple
pushed about
yesterday
Past participle
pushed about
have + pp
-ing form
pushing about
continuous

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