shunt

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#1·11h ago

(transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.

For we are all shunting—shunting—shunting / We're all shunting in this queer world of ours. / Nations are shunted like to our railway carriages: / As Napoleon shunted la belle France into war; / Princes are shunted into royal marriages; …

Origin: From , to jerk, swerve; to dodge, escape, either: * possibly a from , from , sċyniġan; see shun. Or * an alteration of , *schynden, from , to hasten, hurry (as in to remove, take away, from , from . * from unrecorded , a derivative of sċunian. As regards the noun sense, compare , derived from the verb. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·11h ago

(transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.

The comet was burning blue in the distance, like a sickly torch, when I first sighted him, but he begun to grow bigger and bigger as I crept up on him. Thinks I, it won't do to run into him, so I shunted to one side and tore along. By an…

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#3·11h ago

(transitive) To provide with a shunt.

Here in England it is, thank God! the custom for us to shunt ourselves off the grand trunk railroad of business, in tearing up and down which our lives are mainly passed, into some quiet siding once every year. [W]hen July is running int…

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