shoves (off)

verb

present tense third-person singular of shove (off)
as in exits
to leave a place often for another time to shove off for home

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoves (off)
  1. exits
  2. moves
  3. departs
  4. goes
  5. gets
  6. pulls out
  7. digs out
  8. gets off
Verb
  • Afternoon temperatures will tumble from the lower 80s back into the 40s and 50s overnight with breezy winds, as the rain slowly exits during the overnight hours.
    — Cutter Martin, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Another customer who was standing in between the singer and employee at the register during the showdown appears to look around in disbelief at what just happened after the hitmaker exits.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of exits
Verb
  • Frequent gusts of 30 to 40 mph are possible once the front moves through the Chesapeake Bay and inland eastern North Carolina.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Other Panthers moves before Eagles Those aren’t the only moves the Panthers made Saturday.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of moves
Verb
  • At the root of these changes is Dhillon's vision of the Civil Rights Division and its mission that dramatically departs from tradition.
    — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The ending, which substantially departs from Malerman’s novel, offers a richer choice than the source material.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of departs
Verb
  • In Whalefall, written and directed by Brian Duffield, Jay (Abrams) goes diving in the Pacific Ocean to find the remains of his late father Mitt (Josh Brolin), who took his own life a year before amid a terminal illness.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Based on Greaves’ short story, One Night Out centers on a married couple who head out to enjoy a rare date night when their babysitter goes missing.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of goes
Verb
  • The simple industrial design gets a neat little accent in the form of a physical knob for adjusting playback, track navigation, and volume.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
  • This part of South America often gets heavy rain during El Niño, a natural climate phenomenon in which warmer-than-usual waters in the Pacific Ocean scramble weather patterns around the world.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of gets
Verb
  • Halfway through, Brill pulls out a machine that fills the stage with foam, submerging the actors in a cumulus of bubbles.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The video is analyzed for quality—Birdbuddy looks for clips with good poses and exposure, pulls out a few still images from the video, and sends it to the app as a Postcard.
    — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of pulls out
Verb
  • As Connecticut digs out after a historic Nor’easter dumped over two feet of snow across parts of the state this week, the question municipalities are tasked with now is where to put it.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Jonathan Ernst/Reuters As the East Coast digs out from a massive snowstorm, a potential nor'easter could bring more snow to the region this weekend.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of digs out
Verb
  • Feed your head Neagley gets off to a sluggish start, with a workmanlike, rather clumsy first episode largely spent establishing the main characters and central plot—and the writers lean a bit too hard on constant Chicago callbacks.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
  • But if Jackson gets off to a slow start under a new coaching staff, including first-time play-caller Declan Doyle, there’s room to fall.
    — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of gets off
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