shuffle

shuffle: I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. rearrange, switch, shift, mix, intermingle, jumble; scuff, drag; fidget; scuffle, shamble, slouch; equivocate, quibble, evade. See interchange, slowness, changeableness.

II
(Roget's IV) v.
1. [To move with a shuffling gait]

Syn. scuffle, scuff, scrape, hobble; see walk 1 .

2. [To mix cards]

Syn. change, change the order, shift around, rearrange, mix-up.

III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.
1. mix jumble, disorder, shift, interchange, disarrange, displace, mess up.

2. scuff the feet shamble, drag one's feet, scrape, limp.

IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To drag (the feet) along the floor or ground while walking: scuff, scuffle, shamble. See MOVE. 2. To mix together so as to change the order of arrangement: jumble, scramble. Games: riffle. See CHANGE, ORDER. 3. To proceed or perform in an unsteady, faltering manner: blunder, bumble1, bungle, flounder, fudge, fumble, limp, muddle, stagger, stumble. See THRIVE. 4. To use evasive or deliberately vague language: equivocate, euphemize, hedge, tergiversate, weasel. Informal: pussyfoot, waffle. Idioms: beat about (or around) the bush, mince words. See CLEAR. 5. To stray from truthfulness or sincerity: equivocate, palter, prevaricate. See TRUE. II noun The use or an instance of equivocal language: ambiguity, equivocation, equivoque, euphemism, hedge, prevarication, tergiversation, weasel word. Informal: waffle. See CLEAR.

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Synonyms:

Confuse, jumble, mix, shift, intermix, throw into disorder / Prevaricate, quibble, equivocate, cavil, dodge, palter, evade, sophisticate / Struggle, shift, make shift, Trick, quibble, prevarication, cavil, sophism, evasion, artifice, fraud, shuffling, subterfuge, pretence, pretext, ruse

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Shuffle — Shuf fle, n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. [1913 Webster] The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. [1913 Webster] 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. [1913 Webster] The gifts of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
shuffle — index beat (pulsate), bilk, equivocate, evade (deceive), exchange, palter, prevaricate Burton s Legal Thes … Law dictionary

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