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 →

2) To shove something somewhere is to put it there quickly and carelessly. tree →

3) A shove is a hard, rough push. tree →

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 →
• He shoved the door, but it was stuck. tree →
• She shoved her books into her bag and ran. tree →
• The car wouldn't start, so we gave it a shove. tree →
• Someone shoved me and I fell over. tree →
• Shove over and let me sit down. tree →
• The big kids pushed and shoved to get on the bus. tree →
• With that the little man shoved him in at the door, and locked it. tree →

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.
• Pushing and shoving in crowds can knock people over and injure them.
• Freddie — the boy who invented «Scaredy-Sam» — gets shoved into the big bins by two older boys.
• They worked it out together: a pushed queue, a shove, a bloody nose, all over a place in the line.
• For weeks Maddie had been shoving boys in her class.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shove» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.