"push on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pushes on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "push on (third-person singular simple present pushes on, present participle pushing on, simple past and past participle pushed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 30:",
          "text": "The rider, to whom the paths of these wilds seemed intimately known, pushed on at a rapid pace, managing, with much dexterity, to chuse the safest route, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:",
          "text": "The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was \"discovered\" on the way.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To persist, persevere."
      ],
      "id": "en-push_on-en-verb-7VdeVeq9",
      "links": [
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "persevere",
          "persevere"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To persist, persevere."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "press on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Push on the door if it doesn't open automatically.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, on."
      ],
      "id": "en-push_on-en-verb-r1k0DZrA",
      "links": [
        [
          "push",
          "push#English"
        ],
        [
          "on",
          "on#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "push on"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pushes on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "push on (third-person singular simple present pushes on, present participle pushing on, simple past and past participle pushed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 30:",
          "text": "The rider, to whom the paths of these wilds seemed intimately known, pushed on at a rapid pace, managing, with much dexterity, to chuse the safest route, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:",
          "text": "The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was \"discovered\" on the way.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To persist, persevere."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "persevere",
          "persevere"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To persist, persevere."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "press on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Push on the door if it doesn't open automatically.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, on."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "push",
          "push#English"
        ],
        [
          "on",
          "on#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "push on"
}