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# shove

«shove» in Mova's school dictionary: **to push someone or something roughly and hard** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (shove, shoves, shoved, shoving); noun (a shove, shoves)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To shove is to push someone or something roughly and hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#m1)

2) To shove something somewhere is to put it there quickly and carelessly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#m2)

3) A shove is a hard, rough push. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and in playground rules: shoving in a queue is rude and can hurt someone; teachers say «no pushing or shoving». In everyday talk, «shove it in your bag» means put it there quickly. Phrases: «push and shove», «give it a shove», «shove over» (move along, informal).

### examples

- Please don't shove in the line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#x1)
- He shoved the door, but it was stuck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#x2)
- She shoved her books into her bag and ran. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#x3)
- The car wouldn't start, so we gave it a shove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#x4)
- Someone shoved me and I fell over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#x5)
- Shove over and let me sit down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#x6)
- The big kids pushed and shoved to get on the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#x7)
- With that the little man shoved him in at the door, and locked it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: past «shoved». Pronounced to rhyme with «love», not «stove». Shove is rougher than push; it often sounds rude or angry. Shoving others is unsafe near roads, stairs and pools.

### In the corpora

- [His heart thumps, his cheeks go hot, and he shoves the tablet under a cushion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/4/)
- [Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/51-manners-and-kindness/20/)
- [Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/0/)
- [They worked it out together: a pushed queue, a shove, a bloody nose, all over a place in the line.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/2/)
- [For weeks Maddie had been shoving boys in her class.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shove» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shove/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.