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For example, consider the following sentences:

> ドアを押し開ける。 I pushed the door open.  
>  ドアを引き開ける。 I pulled the door open.

Can you do the same for 閉める? So for example:

> ドアを押し閉める。 I pushed the door shut.  
>  ドアを引き閉める。 I pulled the door shut.

I ask this because the first two appear in the dictionary, while the second
two do not.
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You can use 「押し開ける」 to say "to push open", but can you say 「押し閉める」 to mean "to push closed"?
There are no dictionary entries for 押し閉める (while there are for 押し開ける), but you
can find it used [on
Google](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E6%8A%BC%E3%81%97%E9%96%89%E3%82%81%E3%82%8B%22)
to some extent. There are [no entries for it on
alc](http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E6%8A%BC%E3%81%97%E9%96%89%E3%82%81&ref=sa)
either, though. If you use this term you will probably be understood with no
problem but it does't appear to be used very commonly.

As you've added 引き閉める I'll note that I can't find any usages of that, and that
it will probably be confused with 引き締める.

A note on suffixes in Japanese: while there are many words that you can mix
and match to create unique meanings, a lot of them are only really used in
certain combinations and are basically established as words in their own right
with their own nuances and usage and everything. Mixing unconventionally may
be understandable but it won't always sound "normal"
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It's worth mentioning that 閉じる has a spatial nuance to it. When I studied
Japanese as an undergraduate, we were taught to differentiate 閉める and 閉じる by
this nuance. For example:

  * プログラム、目、扉 ー ひらく、とじる
  * 瓶、パッケージ、ドア ー あける、しめる

What we were taught is that if it involves opening something outward/to the
side (and vice versa if it were being closed), like a book or your eyelids,
you use 開く・閉じる.

Now this is not a hard and fast rule, but it is enough to illustrate the idea
that when you close a door with 閉じる, there is a nuance of **pulling it shut**.
The image for me is a double door or a sliding screen, which, when standing in
the doorway, must necessarily be pulled closed, and conveniently, in the case
of the sliding screen, pulled open.

This might explain why there is no entry for 押し閉める, and why my IME doesn't
recognize it. There's no essential need for it.
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