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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     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.
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              A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to
              midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind.
                                                    --Rombler.
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     3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
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              It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into
              the papers that were seizen.          --Dryden.
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     {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.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "shuffled":
     amiss, askew, awry, balled-up, bothered, chaotic, cockeyed,
     confused, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited,
     discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly,
     disorganized, disturbed, embarrassed, flustered, fluttered, fussed,
     haywire, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew,
     in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, jumbled,
     misplaced, mixed-up, on the fritz, out of gear, out of joint,
     out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place,
     out of tune, out of whack, perplexed, perturbed, put-out, rattled,
     roily, ruffled, shaken, shook, turbid, turbulent, unsettled,
     upset
  
  

















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