"push up against" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pushes up against",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushing up against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushed up against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushed up against",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "push up against (third-person singular simple present pushes up against, present participle pushing up against, simple past and past participle pushed up against)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (against)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 25, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, Univ of California Press, page 36",
          "text": "Beyond delivering services, Bobby brought his revolutionary nationalist theory to the job and used the opportunity to push up against the ideological bias in the government program.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 April 13, Allison Johnson, “Samsung Galaxy A54 5G review: a little bit flagship, but mostly midrange”, in The Verge",
          "text": "If there’s a bar for the features and performance that make a flagship phone, well, flagshippy, then the midrange Samsung Galaxy A54 5G pushes right up against it. When this $449 device is sitting on a table next to the $999 Galaxy S23 Plus, I can barely tell the two apart until I’m close enough to pick them up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge."
      ],
      "id": "en-push_up_against-en-verb-6kfGFzyS",
      "links": [
        [
          "pressure",
          "pressure"
        ],
        [
          "challenge",
          "challenge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (against)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, up against."
      ],
      "id": "en-push_up_against-en-verb-VT3z~c5M",
      "links": [
        [
          "push",
          "push#English"
        ],
        [
          "up against",
          "up against#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "push up against"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (against)",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pushes up against",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushing up against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushed up against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pushed up against",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "push up against (third-person singular simple present pushes up against, present participle pushing up against, simple past and past participle pushed up against)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 25, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, Univ of California Press, page 36",
          "text": "Beyond delivering services, Bobby brought his revolutionary nationalist theory to the job and used the opportunity to push up against the ideological bias in the government program.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 April 13, Allison Johnson, “Samsung Galaxy A54 5G review: a little bit flagship, but mostly midrange”, in The Verge",
          "text": "If there’s a bar for the features and performance that make a flagship phone, well, flagshippy, then the midrange Samsung Galaxy A54 5G pushes right up against it. When this $449 device is sitting on a table next to the $999 Galaxy S23 Plus, I can barely tell the two apart until I’m close enough to pick them up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pressure",
          "pressure"
        ],
        [
          "challenge",
          "challenge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, up against."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "push",
          "push#English"
        ],
        [
          "up against",
          "up against#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "push up against"
}