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shiftingnoun the act or an instance of changing positionthe shifting of the toys to the front of the display was a direct result of their sudden popularity motion, move, movement, shift, stir, stirring dislocation, migration, relocationlocomotion, mobility, motility, motivityfiddling, fidgeting, squirm, squirming, twitching, wriggling, writhingflailing, flapping, waving motionlessness immobilityinertia, inertness, stillnesscessation, discontinuance, ending, expiration, finish, halt, lapse, pause, shutdown, shutoff, stop, stoppage, surcease, termination shiftingverbpresent participle of shiftto change the place or position ofhe shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over budging, dislocating, displacing, disturbing, moving, relocating, removing, repositioning, transferring, transposing bearing, carrying, carting, conveying, driving, hauling, lugging, toting, transmitting, transplanting, transportingreplacing, superseding, supplantingaltering, making over, modifying, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, revising, reworking, varying anchoring, fixing, freezing, mooring, securing, setting, stabilizingembedding(also imbedding), entrenching(also intrenching), implanting, ingraining(also engraining), lodging, rooting to change one's positionshe shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview budging, locomoting, moving, stirring fiddling, fidgeting, jiggling, squiggling, squirming, tossing, twitching, wiggling, wriggling, writhingrousing freezing, stilling hanging around, remaining, staying, sticking around, tarryingstabilizing to pass from one form, state, or level to anothershe watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue changing, fluctuating, mutating, snapping, varying metamorphosing, morphing, transmutingbettering, improvingdeteriorating, worseningturning aroundseesawing, teetering, vacillating, wavering plateauing, stabilizing to give up (something) and take something else in returnmy brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window changing, commuting, exchanging, substituting, swapping, switching, trading interchangingdisplacing, replacing, supersedingceding, handing over, surrendering, yieldingreciprocating to meet one's day-to-day needsleft the others to shift for themselves coping, doing, faring, getting along, getting by, getting on, making out, managing carrying on, contriving, scraping (by or through), scrounginglasting, survivingeking out, scraping (out), squeezing, wresting, wringingaffording, swinging fending for oneself, making do, making ends meet, making shift collapsing, failing, falling short, fizzling, flounderingdeclining, petering (out), slumping, waninggiving up |