Thesaurus results for SHOVING

shoving

verb

present participle of shove

as in pushing

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 pressing

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

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Recent Examples of shoving Seattle goaltender Philipp Grubauer shoving Philadelphia's Trevor Zegras raised attention around the room not long after. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Williams was shoving all night, but Jose Ramirez gave him quite a nice cushion, golfing a two-run home run in the fourth inning. — Ryan Morik Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 But Hill admitted to shoving his wife Keeta Vaccaro, 30, against the wall during an argument inside their Sunny Isles condo. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 McMillan was aware of his big game in the moment on Sunday, and even shouted out Smith on the sideline, shoving his face in a camera and letting out some playful bravado like Smith once did. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026 Court records show that Jang reported McKinsey to police in 2023, accusing him of shoving one of their children and using rough physical discipline with them generally. — Terry Chea, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026 The show seems to hope that the thrill of fan service will do the heavy lifting, shoving one seemingly meaningful cameo appearance after another in front of the camera. — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2026 According to the suit, the video depicts the staff member grabbing a Black student from behind, spinning him around, grabbing him by the shirt and shoving him repeatedly into the metal roll-down door of a concession stand. — Eric Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 Kolb was also seen shoving and grabbing a second PETA member who was filming the catwalk takeover and covered the protester’s face with his hand. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 13 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoving

Verb

Because the switching happens thousands of times a second, the device can hold voltage steady, absorb a disturbance or operate in reverse, pushing power backward from batteries toward the grid.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Those cases were part of a broader movement pushing the limits of who is accountable for a mass shooting.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of pushing

Verb

It has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee and hasn’t advanced, but Cuban has kept pressing the case, recently arguing that rising healthcare costs, not AI, are the real threat to American jobs.

— Emma Witman, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Now, congressional Democrats are pressing some donors for more information.

— Jamie Ross, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of pressing

Verb

Biggs has accused the Hobbs administration of driving up home prices with stringent water requirements that stalled new buildings in parts of the Phoenix area.

— Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
No amount of spending from whatever PAC source is driving it into the elections are going to change that dynamic.

— NBC news, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of driving

Verb

According to police, and as the videos appear to show, the robot touches the 16-year-old's buttocks and repeatedly makes thrusting movements toward her.

— October 14, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Its aggressively artificial imagery evokes the kind of AI-slop, dreamcore videos that tend to populate social media these days, thrusting the audience into increasingly unsettling spaces that seem generated from a stranger’s hazy childhood.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026