Thesaurus results for SHOVED

shoved

verb

past tense of shove

as in pushed

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 pressed

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

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Recent Examples of shoved Konig testified his wife shoved him, grabbed him and struck him with a rock. —

Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026 Prosecutors allege the 47-year-old anesthesiologist shoved his wife, Arielle Konig, toward a cliff edge, tried to inject her with a syringe and bashed her head repeatedly with a rock during a hike in Oahu. —

Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026 The Assistant Director of the welfare office shoved two women aside in order to rush over and protect sacred Cook County property. —

Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026 The officer then shoved Phillips, who tussled with the officer and took him to the ground. —

David Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2026 Adam Fox and Vladislav Gavrikov immediately shoved Cotter against the glass. —

Peter Baugh, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026 Over the course of six inconceivably traumatic days, Caldwell and three friends were forcibly marched and starved, shoved under boulders to evade detection, and made to watch their kidnappers execute members of the rival Kyrgyz Army at point-blank range. —

Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 Some of the gags are inspired, some are exasperating, none of them are presented in a way that suggests the filmmakers know the difference, and all of them are shoved down your throat until they’re diminished enough to swallow. —

David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026 Hutchinson pulled Walber out of the car, beat him, and shoved him into the cargo area of the car, according to Scott's testimony. —

Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026

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The confirmation of the 2035 bid, submitted jointly by England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, was also pushed back to form part of the same event.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Toronto then pushed their lead into the 20s early in the fourth.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026