shove

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US /ʃʌv/ See IPA manual

Freq #4828

Meanings

1

noun
the act of giving a push to someone or something

I gave the door a shove in order to close it.
2

verb
push roughly

The people pushed and shoved to get in line.
3

verb
To push, especially roughly or with force.

So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
4

verb
To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.

He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

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Multiword verbs with shove

shove off Phrasal verb C2

to leave, especially in an informal or rude expression

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Word family

Forms shoving

Derived forms duckshoveoutshoveshovableshove-itshoveableshoveboardshovegroatshovelshovershoveyshuffleboardunshoved

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shove off
to leave, especially in an informal or rude expression

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when push comes to shove
when mounting pressure makes decisive action unavoidable

Simplified etymology

Shove is an Old English word of Germanic origin. It is related through the same Germanic root to shuffle and scuffle.

Etymology

From Middle English schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

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# shove

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /ʃʌv/
**Frequency rank:** 4828

## Meanings
1. the act of giving a push to someone or something
2. push roughly
3. To push, especially roughly or with force.
4. To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.

## Examples
- I gave the door a shove in order to close it.
- The people pushed and shoved to get in line.
- So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
- He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

## Derived Forms
- duckshove
- outshove
- shovable
- shove-it
- shoveable
- shoveboard
- shovegroat
- shovel
- shover
- shovey
- shuffleboard
- unshoved

## Etymology
From Middle English schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

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- Actions & Processes

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