[
US
/ˈʃoʊɫdɝ/
]
[ UK /ʃˈəʊldɐ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈəʊldɐ/ ]
NOUN
- the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
- a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula
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the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder
an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform -
a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
the car pulled off onto the shoulder
VERB
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push with the shoulders
He shouldered his way into the crowd - lift onto one's shoulders
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carry a burden, either real or metaphoric
shoulder the burden
How To Use shoulder In A Sentence
- The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
- I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool. Times, Sunday Times
- Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
- As Appling reached down for the ball, it took a bad hop and caromed off his shoulder.
- He could not shoulder the burden alone.
- Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
- It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
- As she got up and moved to support him, she noticed some strange dark stains on his left shoulder, which had been hidden under the pelisse before.
- As a holder of the Combat Infantrymans Badge, it and my Parachute badge are still on my old field jacket, as is the 173 Abn Bde patch on the right shoulder. Why Life is Now More Complicated
- Sasaki huddled against the hot grains of sand, gritting her teeth, curled up in a ball and hugging her shoulders as if to keep herself from ripping apart.
