I.
noun
1 part of the body
ADJECTIVE
▪ dislocated , fractured , frozen , injured , sore , wounded
▪
His frozen ~ has stopped him from playing tennis.
SHOULDER + NOUN
▪ injury
▪ blade , bones , joint , muscle , socket
▪
The bullet hit him squarely between the ~ blades.
▪ height , level
▪ harness , sling , strap
▪ pad
▪ bag
PREPOSITION
▪ over your ~
▪
He slung the sack over his ~ and set off.
PHRASES
▪ a pat on the ~
▪
He gave me a reassuring pat on the ~.
▪ ~ to ~
▪
The route of the procession was lined with police officers standing ~ to ~.
▪ tap sb on the ~
▪
I tapped the man on the ~ and asked him to move.
2 shoulders the part between the two shoulders
ADJECTIVE
▪ broad , huge , muscled , muscular , powerful , strong , wide
▪ delicate , slim
▪ narrow , thin
▪ square
▪ round
▪ bony
▪ bowed
▪ bare
▪ tense , tight
VERB + SHOULDERS
▪ shrug
▪
When I asked him why he'd done it he just shrugged his ~s.
▪ hunch
▪
He hunched his ~s against the cold wind.
▪ drop , relax
▪
Inhale, drop your ~s and raise your chest.
▪ roll , rotate
▪
Roll your ~s forward and take a deep breath.
▪ square , straighten
▪
In an aggressive situation, we stand tall and square our ~s.
SHOULDERS + VERB
▪ be bent , be bowed , be stooped
▪
She was crouched with her head forward and her ~s bent.
▪ droop , drop , sag , slump
▪
My ~s dropped with relief.
▪ lift , shrug
▪
Her ~s lifted in a vague shrug.
▪ heave , shake , twitch
▪
His broad ~s heaved with sobs.
▪ stiffen , tense , tighten
▪ relax
PREPOSITION
▪ on sb's ~s
▪
The child sat on her father's ~s to watch the parade go by.
II.
verb
1 accept the responsibility for sth
VERB + SHOULDER
▪ have to , must
▪
She had to ~ the burden of childcare.
▪ be willing to
▪ be unwilling to
▪
He was unwilling to ~ this responsibility alone.
2 push sb/sth with your shoulder
ADVERB
▪ roughly
▪
We were ~ed roughly out of the way.
▪ aside , out of the way
▪ open
▪
He ~ed open the door.
▪ past
PHRASES
▪ ~ your way past sb/sth , ~ your way through sth
▪
She ~ed her way through the crowd.
Shoulder is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ backpack , ↑ bag , ↑ blame , ↑ burden , ↑ load , ↑ responsibility , ↑ rucksack , ↑ way