Thesaurus results for SHOVE

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verb

ˈshəv

as in to push

to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one I had to keep shoving my heavy suitcase as I slowly made my way to the head of the line

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as in to press

to push steadily against with some force quit shoving your hand in my face

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Verb

In 2021, the actors Daniel Dae Kim and Daniel Wu offered a reward of twenty-five thousand dollars for information leading to an arrest after a ninety-one-year-old man was violently shoved to the ground in Oakland’s Chinatown. —

E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024 Then Murray peeled off to turn and shove outside linebacker Thomas Incoom to the ground. —

Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2024

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In video shared by local authorities this week, a man identified as Rivera approaches a man in his 60s, following an argument about parking, and then gives him a shove. —

Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024 The Amazon, of course, is being logged and overheated to its own tipping point, and an AMOC shutoff could be the final shove. —

Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for shove

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