Meaning: push

Illustrative Context

He was pushing and pulling the furniture around the room.

Most generic verb for moving an object with the hands in a direction away from oneself -- basic opposite of pull.
Avoid terms for just applying pressure, without necessarily causing movement, e.g. press.
Not the sense of push a button, i.e. press, push in/push down'.
Avoid terms specifically for 'distancing', i.e. pushing further away from oneself; the verb selected should be generic enough also to apply to cases where the person pushing the object is him/herself moving too, i.e. pushing an object along.
Avoid terms specifically for pushing an object in constant contact with the ground, e.g. shove.
Avoid intensifying terms emphasising sudden pushing, strenuous force and/or particularly heavy objects, e.g. jolt, ram, shove.
Avoid terms specifically involving rotation (e.g. roll), causing to fall (e.g. push over) or other overly specific senses.
Avoid terms for more general change of position, e.g. move, carry.
In some languages (particularly those with classifier systems), there may be no generic verb, but different ones depending on the nature of the object being pushed. In such cases, select the verb that would be valid and most normal in the illustrative context sentence, and fairly widely applicable to other types of object.