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shovels up

shovels up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shovel up.

Meaning of shovel up

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To move or place in a heap by shoveling.
    • The snow was shoveled up too close to the sidewalk.

Questions about shovels up

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

Words near shovels up in the dictionary

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

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