shoving (off)

verb

present participle of shove (off)
as in exiting
to leave a place often for another time to shove off for home

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoving (off)
  1. exiting
  2. departing
  3. moving
  4. pulling out
  5. running along
  6. pushing on
  7. digging out
  8. peeling off
Verb
  • Treter, who previously missed two games because of injury, was listed as out on Thursday’s availability report after exiting the loss to Wisconsin early.
    — Sean Campbell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Big names from the old Paramount and WBD stables exiting include Dan Barnes, Michael Bishara, Jamie Cooke, Domenic DiMeglio, Marco Nobili, Pank Patel and Juan Sola.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of exiting
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said Friday afternoon that all four Moscow airports -- Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky -- stopped flights arriving and departing for security reasons.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Paramount+ head of originals Jane Wiseman is departing the streamer as the post-merger combination of it and HBO Max takes shape.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of departing
Verb
  • One of the key questions investigators are working to answer is why the control center appeared to be unaware that a train remained stalled on the tracks ahead of a train moving at 120 mph.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • But what about those who exhibit other signs of depression who never stop moving, and may double down on their work?
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of moving
Verb
  • National groups from both parties began pulling out of the race earlier this month, signaling that both now view the contest as less competitive than previously thought.
    — Josephine Murphy, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
  • As good as Oliver Stone is at pulling out incredible performances from his male stars, the same isn’t always true for his leading ladies.
    — Michael Douglas, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulling out
Verb
  • Later, she’s entertained by a mouse running along the baseboard of one of London’s more elegant restaurants.
    — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Spanning 40 miles as the crow flies, the Suwalki Gap is a corridor of land, running along the Polish/Lithuanian border, that connects the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Belarus.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of running along
Verb
  • This is the table stakes of getting to keep pushing on the frontier and keep pushing toward AGI.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Jeffries visited over lunch before pushing on to the next stops, driven by a sense of purpose that the country can do better.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of pushing on
Verb
  • At the other end, Diabaté kept digging out offensive rebounds or drawing fouls.
    — C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • While roof rats make their homes in trees, rafters, and attics, Norway rats look for lower ground, digging out interconnected systems of tunnels and nesting spaces.
    — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of digging out
Verb
  • As with the previous hour, which opened with the Russian assassins stalking River and Sid at the bowling alley, this episode picks up at the suspense cliffhanger of these same assassins peeling off with an abducted Sid in their car.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
  • After peeling off the papery outer skin of the onion, place it on its side on a cutting board.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of peeling off
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