Synonyms for shove
ʃʌvshove

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1. shoveverb

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

   "he gave the door a shove"

2. jostle, shoveverb

   come into rough contact with while moving

   "The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train"

   Synonyms:
   jostle, thrust, stuff, squeeze

3. shoveverb

   push roughly

   "the people pushed and shoved to get in line"

   Synonyms:
   jostle, thrust, stuff, squeeze

4. thrust, stuff, shove, squeezeverb

   press or force

   "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"

   Synonyms:
   extort, pressure, crush, scarf out, lug, rack, twinge, constrict, overindulge, binge, stuff, gouge, tweet, embrace, thrust, gormandize, gormandise, throw, glut, compress, engorge, gourmandize, pig out, ingurgitate, coerce, block, overeat, contract, hale, press, lunge, jostle, hurtle, squeeze, squash, twitch, bosom, pinch, wring, push up, mash, englut, wedge, hurl, hug, force, choke up, pierce, squelch, compact, farce, overgorge, satiate, gorge

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1. shoveverb

   Synonyms:
   push, propel, thrust, poke

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How to use shove in a sentence?

1. Kevin Appleby:

   When push comes to shove, the federal government has both the plenary power and the power of the 1980 Refugee Act to place refugees anywhere in the country.

2. Alfredo Granado:

   We don't want to shove it down their throats, airbus said whatever employees want to do, it's their choice.

3. Nicolas Maduro:

   I suggest you put this democratic charter in a very thin tube and find a better use for it, Mr. Almagro, you can shove that democratic charter wherever it fits.

4. Professor Irwin Corey:

   I think we should cut Florida off at the Georgia border and shove it up the Mississippi. That way, we'll save a lot of water that's leaking into the Gulf of Mexico and we'll be 500 miles further from Cuba

5. Barbara Bush:

   When push comes to shove, people are going to realize Jeb has real solutions. Rather than talking about how popular they are, how great they are, he's doing it because he sees a huge need and it's not being filled by anybody, of all the people running, he seems to be the one who can solve the problems. I think he'll be a great president.