shoved

verb

Definition of shovednext
past tense of shove
1
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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2
as in pressed
to push steadily against with some force quit shoving your hand in my face

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoved
  1. pushed
  2. pressed
  3. drove
  4. compressed
Verb
  • The Democratic-leaning Latino groups pushed back on that narrative, citing their own polling.
    Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Birds who pushed the door to the right were transferred into aviaries where the resident birds were pushing the door on the left and vice versa.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of pushed
Verb
  • Behind the scenes, however, the White House pressed the sides to come to terms, dispatching officials from the Labor Department, Transportation Department and National Economic Council to resolve their differences.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Behind the scenes, however, the White House pressed the sides to come to terms, dispatching officials from the Labor Department, Transportation Department and National Economic Council to resolve their differences.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of pressed
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  • The 35-year-old and his younger brother then drove around 700 miles south to search for their father.
    Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Imposing harsher punishment on repeat offenders drove that support, far outweighing voters’ desire to increase overall prosecutions or deter future crime, the survey found.
    Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of drove
Verb
  • But with the air briefly trapped in a small space beneath the wing and the surface, it gets compressed, increasing the pressure below the wing and generating extra lift.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Since then, digital transformation, steep competition and our collective appetite for innovation have dramatically compressed the product life cycle.
    Keith Yandell, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of compressed
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