The original sentence was

> 巨大な船体が海水を押しのけていく

巨大: huge  
船体: hull; the body of ship/boat  
押す: to press; to pree  
のける=退ける: to push something away

**I would like to know how to 押す and のける is combined together.**  
I am guessing the sentence means something like "the huge body of ship pushed
the seawater away."

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grammar compound-verbs
押しのけていく？How is the two verb connected together
押しのける is a [compound
verb](http://So%20how%20much%20do%20you%20know%20about%20Japanese%20%5Bcompound%20verbs%5D\(https://www.wasabi-
jpn.com/japanese-grammar/japanese-compound-verbs/\)?). There are thousands of
compound verbs in Japanese, and all of them are constructed like `V1 (masu-
stem) + V2`. I'm sure you have already seen many.

Some compound verbs have tricky meanings, but 押しのける is fairly simple. 押す means
"to push", and のける here means "to put aside". The combined meaning is
straightforwardly "to push aside". Still, this is something you have to learn
almost as one word.

There is a good database called [Compound Verb
Lexicon](https://db4.ninjal.ac.jp/vvlexicon/en/).

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