Vocabulary
Jostling
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Push elbow or bump against someone roughly, typically in a crowd
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Crime is up, the police are demoralised, and rival political factions jostling for dominance in towns and tenders alike.
- The two jostling triangles are in ferment today and India intersects both.
- And this is not just because of its head-on collision with the establishment or the non-stop jostling with other political parties but because of internal tu tu main main.
- And now they are being wooed by a range of mutually jostling forces even as they financially shore up the dictatorship in Egypt to keep a lid on the Muslim Brotherhood.
- This is not the usual kind of jostling and jams, which our large cities like Karachi are notorious for; this new anger is one where everyone is poised to fight and cause harm to someone.
Antonyms
Leave alone, Pull; Repress
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