push down

1. 1.

   cause to come or go down

   “The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect”

   “The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet”

   Synonymsdownknock downcut downpull down

   Broaderstrike

   Narrowersubmarine

Questions about push down

What does push down mean?

push down means "cause to come or go down".

What is another word for push down?

Close synonyms include down, knock down, cut down, pull down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is push down a common word?

push down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.