SHOVELED Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

shoveled

verb

variants or shovelled

past tense of shovel

as in dug

to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth the troops quickly shoveled a trench

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Recent Examples of shoveled After all, that is a quite a load – Lacy also caught 29 passes – and some of it could be shoveled off to Michigan State transfer Makhi Frazier. — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 In the absence of heavy equipment, rescue workers, police and volunteers shoveled debris by hand at many sites, looking for survivors. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 Tesla said Wednesday that its profits fell last quarter as the car company run by Elon Musk shoveled more money into research and development, cutting into profits from a sharp increase in vehicle sales. — ABC News, 22 July 2026 Those mounds of soil — not apparent in the photograph — were consistent with digging a hole as dirt is shoveled out and dumped along the edge. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026 Quasars are the extremely active supermassive black holes at the heart of some galaxies, furiously feeding on gas that is being shoveled towards their maw, and growing as a result of this voracious feeding. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 June 2026 All that was left of the snow was shoveled into melting mounds at the edges of intersections and crosswalks. — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 28 May 2026 Nothing reminded me of that as much as when Kimi and Myka, after doing runway walks in their hairnets and drab white protective garments, shoveled the graves of whey out of a slurry and pitched them into a giant bin. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026 During construction, Black men shoveled mud through malarial swamps, while battling snakes and alligators in intense heat. — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026

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Each volunteer selected a site, dug a hole, and collected a soil sample.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026
For decades, activists and Myers’ legal team have dug through the wreckage of his case.

— Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of dug

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According to a study published today in the journal PLOS One, pottery shards excavated from the famous Etowah mounds in present-day Georgia contain trace residues of the plant.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Aug. 2026
Once the crews finish their work, Cieslica said in some cases lawns were excavated and reseeded.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

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