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Meaning of 'shuffle' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Shuffle [ n.]
- The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
2 . Shuffle [ v. i.]
- To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
3 . Shuffle [ v. t.]
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
- To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

Meaning of 'shuffle' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . shuffle [ n]
Meaning (1):
- walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
Example in sentence:
  • from his shambling I assumed he was very old
2 . shuffle [ v]
Meaning (2):
- move about, move back and forth
Example in sentence:
  • He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS
Meaning (3):
- walk by dragging one's feet
Example in sentence:
  • he shuffled out of the room;
  • We heard his feet shuffling down the hall
Meaning (4):
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
Example in sentence:
  • shuffle the cards

Nearby Words:

shuck shucked shucker shucking shudder shuddered shuddering shudderingly shude shuffleboard

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