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

1. transitive verb. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive verb. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
4. intransitive verb. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
5. intransitive verb. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
6. intransitive verb. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
7. intransitive verb. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
8. noun. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
9. noun. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
10. noun. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

    "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"

    Synonyms: shamble, shambling, shuffling

11. noun. the act of mixing cards haphazardly

    Synonyms: make, shuffling

12. verb. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

    "shuffle the cards"

    Synonyms: mix, ruffle

13. verb. walk by dragging one's feet

    "he shuffled out of the room"

    "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"

    Synonyms: scuffle, shamble

14. verb. move about, move back and forth

    "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"

Synonyms

shamble, shambling, shuffling, make, mix, ruffle, scuffle

Common word forms

shuffled, shuffler, shuffles, shuffling

Words from these letters

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