push aside

present singular third person pushes aside · participle present pushing aside · participle past pushed aside · past pushed aside

1. transitiveTo ignore, reject or subdue (something).

   Now all is still. Sounds that had been pushed aside [during sex] now creep back into the room: the tick of the clock on the dresser; the hum of traffic from the street below.

   1986, Sidney Brinkley, “Passion”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 131