Dictionary Entry
shuffle
shuffle is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
- 4intransitive verb
To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
- 5intransitive verb
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- 6intransitive verb
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- 7intransitive verb
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- 8noun
The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
- 9noun
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- 10noun
walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
"from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
- 11noun
the act of mixing cards haphazardly
- 12verb
mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
"shuffle the cards"
- 13verb
walk by dragging one's feet
"he shuffled out of the room"
"We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
- 14verb
move about, move back and forth
"He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"
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