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shuffling

verb , present participle of shuffle

Synonyms and Antonyms of shuffling

1 to move heavily or clumsily

the old man shuffled across the floor in his slippers

Synonyms of shuffling

barging, clumping, flogging [British], floundering, galumphing, lumbering, lumping, plodding, pounding, scuffing, scuffling, shambling, slogging, sloughing, stamping, stomping, stumbling, stumping, tramping, tromping, trudging

Words Related to shuffling

dragging, flopping, hauling

blundering, careening, doddering, lurching, reeling, staggering, swaying, teetering, tottering, waddling, weaving, wobbling (also wabbling)

Near Antonyms of shuffling

drifting, floating, hanging, hovering, poising, wafting

Antonyms of shuffling

breezing, coasting, gliding, sliding, waltzing, whisking

2 to undo the proper order or arrangement of

shuffle the cards and deal five to each player

Synonyms of shuffling

confusing, deranging, disarranging, disarraying, discomposing, disheveling (or dishevelling), disjointing, dislocating, disordering, disorganizing, disrupting, disturbing, hashing, jumbling, messing (up), mixing (up), muddling, mussing, rumpling, scrambling, tousling, tumbling, upsetting

Words Related to shuffling

embroiling, entangling, snarling, tangling

agitating, perturbing, stirring (up), unsettling

Near Antonyms of shuffling

aligning (also alining), lining, lining up, queuing (or queueing)

classifying, codifying, methodizing, systematizing, systemizing

adjusting, fixing

grooming, making up, sprucing (up)

Antonyms of shuffling

arranging, arraying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling (or marshalling), ordering, organizing, ranging, regulating, straightening (up), tidying

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