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# shrug

«shrug» in Mova's school dictionary: **to raise your shoulders quickly and drop them, to show…** — 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 (shrug, shrugs, shrugged, shrugging); noun (a shrug, shrugs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To shrug is to raise your shoulders quickly and drop them, to show you do not know or do not care. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#m1)

2) A shrug is that movement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#m2)

3) To shrug something off is to treat it as not important, or to get over it easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories a shrug shows a character's feeling without words: not knowing, not caring. Phrases: «shrug your shoulders», «shrug it off», «with a shrug».

### examples

- «Where's your homework?» He just shrugged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#x1)
- She shrugged her shoulders and said, «I don't know.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#x2)
- He gave a shrug and walked away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#x3)
- She shrugged off the fall and kept running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#x4)
- Don't shrug when I ask you a question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#x5)
- He shrugged off the cold and played on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#x6)
- "All right," said Elfin, shrugging his shoulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrug/#x7)

### note

Double g: shrugged, shrugging. A shrug can be rude when someone asks you something, so it is better to answer in words.

### In the corpora

- [Kieran's gran shrugged «boys will be boys» about the street fights, as if bruises were a kind of weather.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/5/)
- [He shrugged, said «yeah, all right», and later he passed Maddie the ball.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/11/)
- [When kids ask, he says, «Never met him,» and shrugs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/17/)
- [ne znAyu means I don't know, often said with a shrug; ne means not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/5/)
- [But silence is not a yes, and a shrug is not a yes either.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/168-the-whole-class-punished-and-you-didnt-say-no/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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