shoves in English

noun
1
a strong push.
she gave him a hefty shove and he nearly fell
verb
1
push (someone or something) roughly.
police started pushing and shoving people down the street

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1. The Lannister, outraged, shoves the cup aside and demands another.

2. The malady is marked by nasty kicks, retaliatory shoves, hard words and worse.

3. When the riot had subsided I received affectionate hugs powerful enough to knacker horses and friendly shoves that toppled me over.

4. Well then he struts, stands on tiptoes, bustles, and Bestirs his stumps, shoves and makes way, and with much ado clambers up a …

5. (obsolete or dialectal) across 1923, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, From Place to Place‎[1], →ISBN: Emily steps back behind a rope that a couple of hands stretches Acrosst the stage; and then a couple more hands shoves a wooden runaway Acrosst the orchestra rail … 2003, September Black, Run Naked in the Wind‎[2], iUniverse, →ISBN, page 110: Up and