BARGES Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of barge

as in shuffles

to move heavily or clumsily the big man barged into the room

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noun

plural of barge

as in freighters

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Recent Examples of barges

Verb

Armed with her first name and a job title, Lee barges into the PD’s office to offer Ginger his services. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026 Keeley barges in, wanting £300,000 for a new locker room to which feminist Rebecca, despite her feminism, has to say no. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Even the Sanitation Department is in on the planning because the garbage barges need to get out of the way. — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 June 2026 Konsa pushes Mario Pasalic towards the front post, while O’Reilly barges Josip Stanisic in the opposite direction. — Thom Harris, New York Times, 23 June 2026 Then Worldwide Wes barges into the room. — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026 Johnson barges in, wearing some sort of candy-apple-color fur coat and cooly issuing demands in a perfect, beat-for-beat take on Streep’s famous scene in the first The Devil Wears Prada. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026 Most rooms open onto balconies facing the Huangpu, where barges glide at an unhurried pace and the older skyline glints across the river. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 Larger barges servicing the Puerto Rico trade cost between $30 million and $100 million. — Colin Grabow, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025

Noun

The dredge is conducted by crane and excavator barges that dig sand up and deposit it in another barge. — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for barges

Verb

My brother looks at the floor, mumbles something, and then shuffles away from the table.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
The line shuffles forward quickly, and my heart knots in my chest as Heartfillers are dosed to each person up ahead.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of shuffles

Verb

His creator, an unnamed basket-weaver (Peter Dinklage), braided him as a mate for a lonely virgin, a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who stomps around her rustic village smelling like sushi and tossing her head back in an Eliza Doolittle guffaw.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
At one point Evans stomps in to a Fielder secondary interview to try to stop it.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of stomps

Noun

At least five San Diego warships will participate in RimPac, as well as dozens of foreign vessels, including BAP Pisco, a Peruvian amphibious warship that arrived in San Diego on Monday.

— Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2026
Russia’s 2022 Warship Law also requires 90 days' advance notice for foreign warships to transit the passage, limits the route to one warship at a time, and requires submarines to surface.

— Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026

Definition of warships

Verb

Even as Heath stumbles his way through the lyrics, the audience respectfully claps along to the beat.

— Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
Lizard Music follows a boy (Theo Clark Leber) left to his own devices who stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, and a hidden door to the extraordinary swings open.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of stumbles

Noun

Out in the harbor, the skeletons of derelict ships abandoned by sailors who had gone searching for gold formed the first and strangest San Francisco skyline.

— Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Why ships and airfields need new defenses China’s research focuses on defending valuable assets.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of ships

Verb

The retinol in the formula sloughs away all impurities that lead to the bumps in the first place, while vitamin E and green tea fend off any sensitivities by restoring the moisture barrier.

— Mary Honkus, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2026
Powered by microcrystals, this is an excellent physical exfoliant that sloughs away dead skin with ease—without being overly harsh of course.

— Kiana Murden, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of sloughs

Noun

However, when using vinyl liners, the seams between the sections of a liner can often be visible.

— Terri Williams, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Just be sure to look for liners topped with rust-resistant metal grommets, as a trail of rust streaking your liner is unsightly.

— Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2026