Thesaurus results for SHOVES

shoves 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of shove

as in pushes

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

as in presses

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

shoves

2 of 2

noun

plural of shove

as in sticks

Related Words

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of shoves

Verb

Back in the family’s house, the walking corpse shoves a boy onto the dishwasher, impaling him full of cutlery. —

Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Apr. 2026 Frances shoves June at Boy Carteret. —

Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026 Season 2 springboards on Fisk’s strongarm rule and his mandate to clean up the streets of rebels via his brutish Anti-Vigilante Task Force, which rounds up people – echoing recent INS maneuvers – and shoves them into deplorable conditions and cages. —

Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026 But for a mine, all that needs to happen is a vessel pulls up, shoves one overboard, and moves on. —

Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026 Levi shoves someone just out of the frame, demands to know who threw stones, and later fires a shot, seemingly away from the crowd. —

Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026 The agent shoves the observer again, and then turns his attention to Pretti, pushing him out of the way before shoving the observer to the ground. —

Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026 In one video Pretti appears to intervene after an agent shoves a person. —

Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026 At 12 seconds in the second video, the agent shoves the woman wearing the cream jacket to the ground. —

Kif Leswing,terri Cullen, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoves

Verb

The overnight storms were part of a broader severe weather outbreak that is expected to continue April 28 as the system pushes farther east and new storms develop to the south.

— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Castle Rock’s internal guidance pushes the story toward testing, consultations, and monitoring while pulling it away from hard claims about outcomes.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026