Verb:

झटकणे,

shrugged's Usage Examples:

He shrugged off the first glimmers of what, after the election, became the massive Watergate scandal.

But he also shrugged off those notions of him gaining a reputation coming from that pious nature.

he sounds as if he"s shrugged off the surplice, abandoned his pew and trudged through the mud in search of a long night at the nearest pub.

Hickok shrugged and paid the sum, but Tutt was unappeased.

specially in Berlin, when Liszt showed himself there, I shrugged my shoulders pityingly and thought: quiet sabbatarian Germany does not wish to lose the opportunity.

daily news critics and trade reviewers shrugged Horror Island off as a mere trifle, no more, no less; any criticism that it yielded stronger than this was.

However, due to the perception that West Coast football was inferior to the game played on the East Coast anyway, East Coast and Midwest teams shrugged off the loss of the teams and continued playing American football.

Al Nahyan shrugged and said the people he met were not Muslims.

This resulted in great confusion, Lenin shrugged, laughed a little embarrassed, and refused.

I don't know why they're doing it, he shrugged.

The world shrugged its shoulders, and declared that they had brought it on themselves, while it yet deprecated mob violence, and requested the attention of the authorities and the decisive repression of this new conspiracy of superstition.

Maybank ran the last leg for the United States and surprisingly shrugged off an attack from Roger Black (UK) who had won a silver medal in the individual.

Cannon jumped to make the catch, shrugged off a would-be tackler, and scampered into the end zone for a touchdown, his second in two straight low-scoring.

Synonyms:

gesticulate, motion, gesture,

Antonyms:

motionlessness, moving, nonmoving, retreat,