| scramble | | |
| n. (act) | 1. scramble, scuffle | an unceremonious and disorganized struggle. |
| ~ struggle, battle | an energetic attempt to achieve something.; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition" |
| n. (act) | 2. scamper, scramble, scurry | rushing about hastily in an undignified way. |
| ~ rush, haste, rushing, hurry | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner.; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" |
| v. (motion) | 3. scramble | to move hurriedly.; "The friend scrambled after them" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 4. clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle | climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling. |
| ~ climb | move with difficulty, by grasping. |
| v. (contact) | 5. jumble, scramble, throw together | bring into random order. |
| ~ disarray, disorder | bring disorder to. |
| ~ tumble | throw together in a confused mass.; "They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern" |
| v. (contact) | 6. beat, scramble | stir vigorously.; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ whisk, whip | whip with or as if with a wire whisk.; "whisk the eggs" |
| ~ cream | make creamy by beating.; "Cream the butter" |
| ~ raise up, commove, disturb, stir up, vex, shake up, agitate | change the arrangement or position of. |
| v. (change) | 7. scramble | make unintelligible.; "scramble the message so that nobody can understand it" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| shuffle | | |
| n. (act) | 1. make, shuffle, shuffling | the act of mixing cards haphazardly. |
| ~ reordering | a rearrangement in a different order. |
| ~ reshuffling, reshuffle | shuffling again.; "the gambler demanded a reshuffle" |
| ~ riffle | shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners. |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| n. (act) | 2. 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" |
| v. (motion) | 3. scuffle, shamble, shuffle | 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" |
| ~ scuff, drag | walk without lifting the feet. |
| v. (motion) | 4. shuffle | move about, move back and forth.; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS" |
| ~ shift, transfer | move around.; "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket" |
| v. (contact) | 5. mix, ruffle, shuffle | mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.; "shuffle the cards" |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ reshuffle | shuffle again.; "So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards" |
| ~ riffle | shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix. |
| ~ cut | divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult.; "Wayne cut"; "She cut the deck for a long time" |
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