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shove
What does shove mean?
shove (verb): to push, especially roughly or with force.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use shove in a sentence?
- The people pushed and shoved to get in line. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce shove?
/ʃʌv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does shove come from?
From Middle English schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “shove” mean?
to come or go back (to a place or person)
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use up a period of time in a specific way
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to contain comfortably; to have space for
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to push, especially roughly or with force
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