Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shuffling
2 senses of shuffling
Sense 1
shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling -- (walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old")
=> walk, walking -- (the act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of exercise")
Sense 2
shuffle, shuffling, make -- (the act of mixing cards haphazardly)
=> reordering -- (a rearrangement in a different order)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shuffle
3 senses of shuffle
Sense 1
shuffle, scuffle, shamble -- (walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall")
=> walk -- (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet")
Sense 2
shuffle -- (move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS")
=> transfer, shift -- (move around; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket")
Sense 3
shuffle, ruffle, mix -- (mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards")
=> manipulate -- (hold something in one's hands and move it)