Word.ws English Dictionary

shifted about

shifted about is the simple past and past participle of shift about.

Meaning of shift about

Verb

shift about (third-person singular simple present shifts about, present participle shifting about, simple past and past participle shifted about)

  1. (intransitive) To vacillate.
  2. (dated, intransitive) To turn round entirely to the opposite point.

Questions about shifted about

What is shifted about the simple past and past participle of?
Shifted about is the simple past and past participle of shift about.

Words near shifted about in the dictionary

  1. shiftability
  2. shiftable
  3. shiftage
  4. shiftas
  5. shifted
  6. shifted about
  7. shifted gears
  8. shifted geometric distribution
  9. shifted ground
  10. shifted in
  11. shifted off

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shifted about (page history and authors); shift about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shifted about.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shifted_about. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.