shoved

verb

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 shoved Just last week, 65-year-old Lydia Zuniga’s leg was broken in three places after a mentally ill stranger shoved her onto the tracks at a Bronx subway station in an unprovoked attack. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026 At the weigh-ins and face-off for the IBF heavyweight championship fight, Itauma shoved Hrgovic off the stage and the latter retaliated by slapping the former's face. — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Too unbankable, even if it got shoved onto a streaming platform instead? — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026 The commercial showed golfer Alexis Miestowski trying to grab a driver out of a golf bag, only to be shoved to the ground by Good Good Golf co-founder Garrett Clark. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026 Taylor dropped back three steps and arced a jump ball into the corner over Barron and into the mitts of Sheppard, who appeared to scrape both toes along the turf before the Broncos’ stopper shoved him out of bounds. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 26 Aug. 2026 Having the cold crystal shoved into my chest is the worst feeling. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026 Tork Mason / Imagn Images Jonathan Ford, DT Ford threw running back Jaden Nixon to the ground so aggressively during Tuesday’s practice that left tackle Jordan Morgan got in his face and shoved him. — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 Mendoza chased him down, but Woodaz shoved him aside near the 15 and continued to the end zone. — ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoved
  1. pushed
  2. pressed
  3. drove
  4. compressed
Verb
  • The threat of shortages pushed countries across Asia to impose export bans, cut import duties, and start rationing fuel to maintain supplies.
    — Katie Silver, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The extreme heat pushed up air conditioning electricity demand, while heavy storms simultaneously dealt a blow to power supplies in parts of the country.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of pushed
Verb
  • Parents within the West Mifflin Area School District pressed the district and its bus provider for answers at a town hall Thursday after a rocky start to the school year.
    — Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but, when pressed by journalists during a news conference, would not say whether its leaders had concluded whether a genocide had occurred.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of pressed
Verb
  • In the 1970s, Khouri, who went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Thelma & Louise, drove past the Tudor-style house almost every day.
    — Caroline Randall Williams, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The next day, David drove back to Altadena while Lauren took the girls to Target to buy toothbrushes and underwear.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of drove
Verb
  • The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The core issue is that this gas is normally compressed when injected at depth underground.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of compressed

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“Shoved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoved. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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