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shoveling out

shoveling out is the present participle and gerund of shovel out.

Meaning of shovel out

Verb

shovel out (third-person singular simple present shovels out, present participle (US) shoveling out or (UK) shovelling out, simple past and past participle (US) shoveled out or (UK) shovelled out)

  1. (transitive) to remove something by shoveling or digging.
  2. (transitive) to remove something using a scooping movement.

Questions about shoveling out

What is shoveling out the present participle and gerund of?
Shoveling out is the present participle and gerund of shovel out.

Words near shoveling out in the dictionary

  1. shovelful
  2. shovelfuls
  3. shovelhead
  4. shovelheads
  5. shoveling
  6. shoveling out
  7. shoveling up
  8. shovelings
  9. shovellable
  10. shovelled
  11. shovelled out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoveling out (page history and authors); shovel out (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.

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