Meaning

2 senses

  1. To move materials with a shovel.

    The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.

    After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.

    schaufeln, schippen

    dig with or as if with a shovel

  2. (figuratively, transitive)To move with a shoveling motion.

    Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.

Examples

183 sentences

  1. I spent all morning shoveling snow.

    Я провів весь ранок, розгрібаючи сніг. — deniko

    ruЯ всё утро разгребал снег. — marafon

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  2. I don't have a shovel, but I know someone who does.

    Я не маю лопати, але я знаю, хто має. — deniko

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  3. I don't have a shovel, but I know somebody who does.

    Я не маю лопати, але я знаю, хто має. — deniko

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  4. Put the shovel down.

    Поклади лопату. — deniko

    ruПоложи лопату. — soniamiku

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  5. I hate shoveling snow.

    Я ненавиджу розчищати сніг. — deniko

    ruНенавижу чистить снег. — sharptoothed

    deIch hasse Schneeschippen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

7 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to move materials with a shovel:

Origin

From Middle English schovele, schovel, showell, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool),

From Middle English schovele, schovel, showell, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English scofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix).

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Forms

shovels, shoveling, shoveled, shoveled
Base formshovel · to shovel
3rd person singularshovels
Present participleshoveling
Past simpleshoveled / shovelled
Past participleshoveled / shovelled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyshovel
he, she, itshovels

Past simpleLesson

all personsshoveled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave shoveled
he, she, ithas shoveled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill shovel

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Word family

8 related words
Relatedshovescoopshoveler
Derivedreshovelshovellableshovel outshovel upunshovelled

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

4 patterns
  • shoveling snow
  • shovel the snow
  • have a shovel
  • buy a shovel

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
shoutA2shoveshowA1showcaseB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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