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单词 shuffle
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shuffleverb

uk/ˈʃʌf.əl/us/ˈʃʌf.əl/

shuffle verb (WALK)

[ I + adv/prep, T ] to walk by pulling your feet slowly along the ground rather than lifting them:

I love shuffling through the fallen leaves.
He shuffled into the kitchen, leaning on his walking stick.
Don't shuffle your feet like that! Walk normally.

[ I usually + adv/prep, T ] to move your feet or bottom around, while staying in the same place, especially because you are uncomfortable, nervous, or embarrassed:

The woman in front of me kept shuffling around in her seat all the way through the performance.
When I asked him where he'd been, he just looked at the ground and shuffled his feet.

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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty

  • blunder
  • bumble
  • doddery
  • falter
  • galumphing
  • limp
  • lollop
  • lumber
  • lurch
  • reel
  • schlep
  • shamble
  • squeeze
  • stumble
  • toddle
  • toil
  • totter
  • trip (sb) up
  • tumble
  • waddle

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shuffle verb (MOVE AROUND)

[ T ] to move similar things from one position or place to another, often to give an appearance of activity when nothing useful is being done:

She shuffled her papers nervously on her desk.
Many prisoners have to be shuffled around police stations because of prison overcrowding.

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Transferring and transporting objects

  • bearer
  • borne
  • bring
  • budge
  • bus
  • call for sb
  • drop
  • ferry
  • freight
  • pick sb/sth up
  • put sb down somewhere
  • road haulage
  • route
  • spirit
  • tear 1
  • tear sb away
  • tote
  • transfer
  • transport
  • transportation

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Useless and futile

shuffle verb (MIX CARDS)

[ I or T ] to mix a set of playing cards without seeing their values before beginning a game, so that their order is not known to any of the players:

It's your turn to shuffle the cards.

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Card games

  • bridge
  • canasta
  • card sharp
  • deal
  • dealer
  • diamond
  • discard
  • flush
  • grand slam
  • jack
  • joker
  • pass
  • pool
  • royal flush
  • rummy
  • singleton
  • snap
  • solitaire
  • strip poker
  • suit

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Idiom(s)

shuffle off this mortal coil

Phrasal verb(s)

shuffle sth off

shufflenoun

uk/ˈʃʌf.əl/us/ˈʃʌf.əl/

shuffle noun (MOVE AROUND)

[ C ] the act of moving things around from one position to another:

She gave her papers a quick shuffle.

[ C ] mainly US UK usually reshuffle an occasion when the positions of people or things within a particular group are changed :

We expect a Cabinet shuffle in the summer.

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Transferring and transporting objects

  • bearer
  • borne
  • bring
  • budge
  • bus
  • call for sb
  • drop
  • ferry
  • freight
  • pick sb/sth up
  • put sb down somewhere
  • road haulage
  • route
  • spirit
  • tear 1
  • tear sb away
  • tote
  • transfer
  • transport
  • transportation

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Organizations, Societies & clubs

shuffle noun (CARDS)

[ C ] the act of mixing a set of playing cards before giving them out:

Make sure you give the cards a good shuffle before you deal.

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Card games

  • bridge
  • canasta
  • card sharp
  • deal
  • dealer
  • diamond
  • discard
  • flush
  • grand slam
  • jack
  • joker
  • pass
  • pool
  • royal flush
  • rummy
  • singleton
  • snap
  • solitaire
  • strip poker
  • suit

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shuffle noun (MUSIC)

[ U ] a feature of an MP3 player, mobile phone, etc. that plays songs in a random order:

I put my iPod on shuffle and drove home.
a shuffle mode/function

shuffle noun (WALK)

[ S ] a way of walking in which you pull your feet slowly along the ground rather than lifting them:

He's got arthritis and walks with a shuffle.

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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty

  • blunder
  • bumble
  • doddery
  • falter
  • galumphing
  • limp
  • lollop
  • lumber
  • lurch
  • reel
  • schlep
  • shamble
  • squeeze
  • stumble
  • toddle
  • toil
  • totter
  • trip (sb) up
  • tumble
  • waddle

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