Synonyms for SHOVEL
ˈʃʌv əlshov·el

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1. shovelnoun

   a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle

   Synonyms:
   digger, power shovel, excavator, shovelful, spadeful

2. shovel, shovelful, spadefulnoun

   the quantity a shovel can hold

   Synonyms:
   digger, power shovel, excavator, shovel, shovelful, spadeful

3. shovelnoun

   a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace

   Synonyms:
   digger, power shovel, excavator, shovelful, spadeful

4. power shovel, excavator, digger, shovelverb

   a machine for excavating

   Synonyms:
   shovelful, power shovel, excavator, shovel, digger, spadeful

5. shovelverb

   dig with or as if with a shovel

   "shovel sand"; "he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long"

Matched Categories

1. • Dig
   • Fire Iron
   • Hand Tool

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1. List of paraphrases for "shovel":

   dustpan, spade, scoop, skin, spatula, dredge, backhoe, bucket

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How to use SHOVEL in a sentence?

1. Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963:

   I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

2. Nikita Khrushchev:

   I once said, We will bury you, and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

3. Keith Richards:

   Hopefully...we'll never give up. They'll have to shovel us in the grave. We feel like we're still evolving and I think you have to feel that way, every show that you do, you say the next one is going to be a little bit better.

4. Brandon Rola:

   Around the ninth, 10th shovel full, I hit a child's boot.

5. Michael Marshall:

   And then you hear the dirt and rock and the shovel hitting the top of the trailer and—we're being buried alive, my thought process was if we're gonna stay down here and kick the bucket, we might as well kick it trying to get out.