押おし寄よせる

Meanings

Usage patterns

• 〈場ば所しょ〉に〈人ひと〉が押おし寄よせるa crowd of people surges into a place

  セール初しょ日にち、大おお勢ぜいの客きゃくが店みせに押おし寄よせた。

  On the first day of the sale, a huge crowd of customers flooded into the store.

• 波なみが押おし寄よせるwaves surge in (toward the shore)

  台たい風ふうの影えい響きょうで、大おおきな波なみが海かい岸がんに押おし寄よせた。

  Because of the typhoon, huge waves surged onto the shore.

• 〈事こと〉が押おし寄よせるa flood of feelings, memories, or pressures comes rushing in

  卒そつ業ぎょう式しきが近ちかづくと、様さま々ざまな思おもい出でが一いっ気きに押おし寄よせてきた。

  As graduation approached, a flood of memories came rushing back all at once.