Meaning

7 senses
  1. (ambitransitive)To put in a random order.

    Don't forget to shuffle the cards.

    You shuffle, and I'll deal.

    mischen, mischeln, durchmischen

    тасова́тьtasovátʹ, перетасова́тьperetasovátʹ, переме́шиватьpereméšivatʹ

    тасуватиtasuvaty

    mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

  2. To change; modify the order of something.

  3. (ambitransitive)To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

    He shuffled out of the room.

    I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.

    walk by dragging one's feet

  4. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

    schlurfen

    ша́ркатьšárkatʹ, волочи́ть но́гиvoločítʹ nógi

    човгатиčovhaty

  5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

  6. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.

    to shuffle money from hand to hand

  7. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

Examples

56 sentences
  1. Tom shuffled the cards.

    Том перетасував карти.

    ruТом перетасовал карты.

    deTom mischte die Karten.

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  2. Please shuffle the cards carefully.

    Будь ласка, ретельно перетасуйте карти.

    ruПожалуйста, перетасуйте карты тщательно.

    deBitte misch die Karten sorgfältig.

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  3. Do you want me to shuffle the cards?

    deMöchtest du, dass ich die Karten mische?

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  4. I shuffled the cards and then dealt them.

    ruЯ перемешал карты и затем раздал их.

    deIch mischte die Karten und teilte sie dann aus.

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  5. Tom picked up the cards and began shuffling them.

    deTom nahm die Karten und fing an, sie zu mischen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to put in a random order:
to walk without picking up one's feet:
Русский
By meaning 2
to put in a random order:
to walk without picking up one's feet:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to put in a random order:
to walk without picking up one's feet:

Origin

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

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Forms

shuffles, shuffling, shuffled, shuffled
Base formshuffle · to shuffle
3rd person singularshuffles
Present participleshuffling
Past simpleshuffled
Past participleshuffled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyshuffle
he, she, itshuffles

Past simpleLesson

all personsshuffled

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill shuffle

Synonyms

5 synonyms
walk without picking up one's feet:shambleC2scuff
Close in meaning

Word family

18 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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