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to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel

nounverb HSK 3.0 · Band 7 trad. 剷

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他用铲子铲土。

He shovels dirt with a shovel.

工人把雪铲到路边。

The workers shoveled the snow to the roadside.