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shuffle
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[ verb ] walk by dragging one's feet
Examples "he shuffled out of the room" "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)He pulled with all his strength at the heavy , brass bound door , and shuffled along the wainscoted wall . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)It was amazing how they had herded together for protection : an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper , rising from the breakfast_table ; a gross boy in his teens , shuffling in from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands ; a girl in her twenties , fat and sullen , descending the marble staircase ; then all four gathering on the sofa to face the inquisitor . |
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[ verb ] move about, move back and forth
Examples "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS" Used in print (The Philadelphia Inquirer,...)We shuffle a large percentage of the cars across the river twice . Related terms |
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