shove

1. 1.

   the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something)

   “he gave the door a shove”

   Broaderpush

   Narrowerbundlingjostle

Other forms of shove

plural

shoves·

past tense

shoved·

present participle

shoving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shove

What does shove mean?

shove means "come into rough contact with while moving". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shove?

shove has 1 syllable: shove. In IPA it is /ˈʃʌv/.

What is another word for shove?

Close synonyms include jostle, thrust, stuff, squeeze. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shove a common word?

shove is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.