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say it: PUUSH-ing
pushing is a noun meaning "the act of applying force in order to move something away". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of applying force in order to move something away
“he gave the door a hard push”
“the pushing is good exercise”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pushing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.