Word Finder - shouldered

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To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.

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To put (something) on one's shoulders.

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To place (something) against one's shoulders.

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To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.

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To accept responsibility for.

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shoulder the blame

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To form a shape resembling a shoulder.

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To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.

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To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.

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To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.

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(in combination) Having or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.

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She was bare-shouldered.

They shouldered the full canteens and, picking up their rifles, started back to the camp.

Bird highlights here included streaked flycatcher, white shouldered tanager, crested guan and orange collared manakin.

Some light has been thrown on the connexion between the Tibetan race and certain tribes of central India, the Bhils and Kols; and it seems more probable that these tribes are the remnants of a Mongolian race which first displaced a yet earlier Negroid population, and was then itself shouldered out by a Caucasian irruption, than that they entered India by any of the northern passages within historic times.

Some one piece bathing suits are available as halters or one shouldered, while other suits have strategic cut-outs covered with lace and mesh.

Stepped shouldered design rings have two descending "steps" as the ring shank curves around the finger.

Damian's nature was not like Darian's and their father's, but he'd shouldered the responsibility to protect humanity and battle the Black God without question.

Paired archways to ground floor, with shouldered architraves and squat central marble column with foliate capital and deep base.

Regardless of the ever-increasing workload shouldered by working people, industry is in an increasingly decrepit state.

In person, Longfellow was rather below middle height, broad shouldered and well built.

The short, round- shouldered Captain Tushin, stumbling over the tail of the gun carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out shading his eyes with his small hand.

There was a look of resignation, not concern, on Cynthia's face as Dean shouldered his pack and Cynthia's camera equipment.

Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage.

The woman's husband, a short, round- shouldered man in the undress uniform of a civilian official, with sausage-shaped whiskers and showing under his square-set cap the hair smoothly brushed forward over his temples, with expressionless face was moving the trunks, which were placed one on another, and was dragging some garments from under them.