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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shuffle \shuf"fle\, v. t. imp.  p. p. shuffled; p. pr.  vb.
   n. shuffling. originally the same word as scuffle, and
   properly a freq. of shove. see shove, and scuffle.
   1. to shove one way and the other; to push from one to
      another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
      1913 webster

   2. to mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into
      disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of,
      as of the cards in a pack.
      1913 webster

            a man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to
            midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind.
                                                  --rombler.
      1913 webster

   3. to remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
      1913 webster

            it was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into
            the papers that were seizen.          --dryden.
      1913 webster

   to shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of.

   to shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or
      form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he
      shuffled up a peace.
      1913 webster
see also:
shuffled shuffling shove scuffle to shuffe off to shuffe up 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shuffle \shuf"fle\, v. i.
   1. to change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to
      shuffle and cut.
      1913 webster

   2. to change one's position; to shift ground; to evade
      questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
      1913 webster

            i myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity,
            am fain to shuffle.                   --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to use arts or expedients; to make shift.
      1913 webster

            your life, good master,
            must shuffle for itself.              --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. to move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape
      the feet in walking or dancing.
      1913 webster

            the aged creature came
            shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. --keats.
      1913 webster

   syn: to equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift;
        sophisticate; juggle.
        1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 nature are beyond all shame and
            shuffles.                             --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
shuffle
     n 1: the act of mixing cards haphazardly syn: shuffling, make
     2: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your
        feet; "from his shambling i assumed he was very old" syn:
         shamble, shambling, shuffling
     v 1: walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room";
          "we heard his feet shuffling down the hall" syn: scuffle,
           shamble
     2: move about, move back and forth; "he shuffled his funds
        among different accounts in various countries so as to
        avoid the irs"
     3: mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle
        the cards" syn: ruffle, mix
see also:
shuffling make shamble shambling scuffle ruffle 
mix 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
291 moby thesaurus words for "shuffle":
   admix, alloy, alternate, amalgamate, amble, andante,
   around the bush, back and fill, ball up, barge, beat about,
   befuddlement, beg the question, bemingle, bewilderment, bicker,
   blend, boggle, bollix up, bother, botheration, bowl along, bumble,
   bundle, cavil, chaos, choplogic, claudication, clog, cloud, clump,
   coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct,
   confound, confuse, confusion, conglomerate, crawl, creep, dance,
   daze, dead march, disarrange, disarray, discombobulation,
   discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcertion, dislocate,
   disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorientation, disrupt,
   disturb, disturbance, dodge, dodging, dogtrot, drag, draggle,
   droop, ebb and flow, embarrassment, emulsify, equivocate,
   equivocation, evade, evade the issue, evasion, fence, fencing,
   flounce, flounder, fluctuate, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter,
   fog, foot, footpace, footslog, foul up, fox-trot, frenzy, fuddle,
   fuddlement, fumble, funeral march, fuse, gait, gallop, garble,
   go through phases, halt, hash, haze, hedge, hem and haw,
   hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, homogenize, hoof, hop, hum and haw,
   immingle, immix, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard,
   intermingle, intermix, intersperse, intertwine, interweave,
   jesuitism, jog, jog trot, jolt, jumble, jump, jungle, knead,
   leisurely gait, limp, litter, lock step, lumber, lumbering pace,
   lunge, lurch, mash, maze, merge, mess, mess up, mince,
   mincing steps, mingle, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mist, mix, mix up,
   muck up, muddle, muddlement, mystify, niggle, nitpick, obscure,
   oscillate, pace, pad, paddle, palter, parry, parrying, peg,
   pendulate, perplexity, perturbation, pi, piaffe, piaffer,
   pick nits, play hob with, plod, pother, prance, prevaricate,
   prevarication, pucker, pussyfoot, quibble, quiddity, quillet, quip,
   quirk, quodlibet, rack, rearrange, riffle, ring the changes, roll,
   ruffle, rummage, sashay, saunter, scatter, scramble, scrape,
   scrape along, scraping, screw up, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seesaw,
   shake, shamble, shift, shift about, shimmy, shovel, shuffling, shy,
   sidestep, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slipper, slither, slog,
   slouch, slow march, slow motion, slowness, slur, snafu, snarl up,
   split hairs, stagger, stalk, stamp, step, stew, stir up, stomp,
   straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump,
   subterfuge, suppressio veri, swagger, sway, sweat, swing, swivet,
   syncretize, tap-dance, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate,
   tergiversation, throw together, tittup, tizzy, toddle,
   toss together, totter, traipse, tread, trick, trip, trot, trudge,
   tumble, turn, turn topsy-turvy, unsettlement, upset, vacillate,
   vary, velocity, waddle, waffle, walk, waltz, wamble, waver,
   wax and wane, weasel, weasel words, wiggle, wobble, work





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