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shovels out

shovels out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 shovels out

What is shovels out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shovels out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shovel out.

Words near shovels out in the dictionary

  1. shovelnose guitarfishes
  2. shovelnosed
  3. shovelnoses
  4. shovelomics
  5. shovels
  6. shovels out
  7. shovels up
  8. shovelsful
  9. shovelware
  10. shovelweed
  11. shoven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shovels 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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