push off

verb

pushed off; pushing off; pushes off

intransitive verb

: set out

we pushed off for home

Synonyms of push off

• move
• exit
• depart
• go
• get
• push on
• pull out
• get off
• peel off
• walk out
• run along
• cut out
• go off
• take off
• step (along)
• clear out
• escape
• clear off
• shove (off)
• dig out
• bail out
• evacuate
• start

Examples of push off in a Sentence

let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush

Recent Examples on the Web

In the spring, the company had pushed off a revamp of its flagship Siri voice assistant after warning that certain personalization features would take longer than expected to deliver. —Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026

For-sale inventory tends to be less robust, open houses are fewer and the effort to travel from home to home in less-than-ideal weather conditions leaves many buyers pushing off a sale until the spring. —Matt Richardson, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026

Aside from lowering the odds of ice forming, the road treatments in North Texas are meant to keep precipitation from bonding to the pavement — so it can be churned into slush by traffic or pushed off the road by crews, Hartzel said. —Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 21 Jan. 2026

For now, his priority is getting Bristol City’s promotion push off the ground, and Struber sounds super motivated on that front. —Stuart James, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1740, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for push off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff