Antonyms for shove
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : shuhv |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʃʌv |
Definition of shove
Origin :- Old English scufan "push away, thrust, push with violence" (class II strong verb; past tense sceaf, past participle scoven), from Proto-Germanic *skeub-, *skub- (cf. Old Norse skufa, Old Frisian skuva, Dutch schuiven, Old High German scioban, German schieben "to push, thrust," Gothic af-skiuban), from PIE root *skeubh- "to shove" (cf. scuffle, shuffle, shovel; likely cognates outside Germanic include Lithuanian skubti "to make haste," skubinti "to hasten"). Related: Shoved; shoving.
- Replaced by push in all but colloquial and nautical usage. Shove off "leave" (1844) is from boating. Shove the queer (1859) was an old expression for "to counterfeit money." Shove it had an earlier sense of "depart" before it became a rude synonym for stick it (by 1941) with implied destination.
- verb push without gentleness
- He then told me to shove off, which I did without waiting for a second order.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- With one shove the zinc-worker made his way through the crowd.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- For a while, it was kick backwards, then a shove at the safe.
- Extract from : « The Einstein See-Saw » by Miles John Breuer
- Well, shove in quinine, and keep him quiet, with hot bottles to his feet.
- Extract from : « The Burning Spear » by John Galsworthy
- Edward tumbled into the bottom of the boat, gasping, "Shove her off!"
- Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
- We must (p. 032) learn to screw, to wheel, to shove and to rush.
- Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
- I've promised the Chief we'll be ready to shove off in two hours.
- Extract from : « Vampires of Space » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
- The words penetrated just as he was about to shove once more.
- Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
- I 'm thinking we can't do better than shove him ashore on the island yonder.
- Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
- When you see me drop into her all of a sudden, shove off and pull for dear life.
- Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad
Synonyms for shove
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