Synonyms for shovel
ˈʃʌv əl

Princeton's WordNet(2.60 / 5 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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, 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, 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

PPDB, the paraphrase database(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

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. Mark Twain:

   A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.

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. Steve McCurry:

   Some of the firemen were really upset, one wanted to come after us with a shovel.

4. Adam Olenn:

   We’ll have some fun, shovel out and go back to school, it’s all in a day’s work, and it’s one very exciting day for our school.

5. 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.

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