BARGE Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of barge

as in to shuffle

to move heavily or clumsily the big man barged into the room

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Verb

Schmid is sometimes easy to barge off the ball, but makes up for his diminutive frame with great technique across the final third. — Thom Harris, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 On July 24, policemen in plainclothes barged into his house late evening and took him to the Navrangpura police station in Ahmedabad. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026

Noun

The wreckage may have come from a schooner barge, a type of merchant vessel commonly used to transport cargo along the East Coast during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Robinson said. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Alabama Jack’s rebuilt on a barge and reopened in March 1966. — Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for barge

Recent Examples of Synonyms for barge

Verb

Findings of no effect tend to either be shuffled off to low-profile journals or left behind as unpublished lab lore.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
For the most part, this was a second consecutive solid performance by a group that will likely undergo major personnel shuffling all season.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of shuffle

Verb

His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
But wrap a play in too much homespun folksiness and the thing starts to feel both suffocating and, despite all the driving tunes and stomping choreography in the world, suffocated.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of stomp

Noun

That last pandemic was accelerated by a boom in rail and steamship travel but was eventually quashed by advances in science.

— Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Passenger boats have not passed through these parts since the days of the steamship petered all the way out some 60 years ago.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of steamship

Verb

Johnson had nothing but space, and stumbled to make one move before reaching the end zone for his first career touchdown.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
After stumbling into an intro to acting class, the 28-year-old quickly caught the professor’s attention.

— Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of stumble

Noun

Mouthwashing follows five crew members stranded aboard the space freighter Tulpar, which crash lands on an asteroid.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026
While the pic’s storyline is under wraps, the game follows five crew members who are stranded aboard the space freighter Tulpar, where dwindling supplies, isolation and mounting paranoia expose the fractures between them.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of freighter

Verb

By gently sloughing off dead skin cells, the cleanser brightens the complexion and gives it a smoother, softer feel.

— Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026
Glycolic acid joins the mix to slough away dead surface cells, while salicylic acid tackles buildup inside pores.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of slough

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