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shove over

shove over verb: to push over; to push so that it topples.

Verb

shove over (third-person singular simple present shoves over, present participle shoving over, simple past and past participle shoved over)

  1. (transitive) To push over; to push so that it topples.
  2. (colloquial, intransitive) To move aside to make additional room for another person; to scooch or scoot over.
    • […] I stand there over him with my breakfast tray, expecting him to jovially shove over and make room for me on the bench instead of just kind of blinking at me […]2011, Terra Elan McVoy, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, page 251
    Synonyms:
    shove up

Synonyms of shove over

Forms of shove over

third-person singular presentshoves over
present participleshoving over
past participleshoved over
pastshoved over

Questions about shove over

What does shove over mean?
Shove over means to push over; to push so that it topples.
What part of speech is shove over?
Shove over is a verb.
What is the past tense of shove over?
The past tense of shove over is shoved over.

Words near shove over in the dictionary

  1. shove it
  2. shove it up your ass
  3. shove knife
  4. shove off
  5. shove on
  6. shove over
  7. shove something down someone's throat
  8. shove the queer
  9. shove up
  10. shove-it
  11. shove-its

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