ADJ
- dislocated, frozen
- His frozen shoulder has stopped him playing tennis
SHOULDER + NOUN
- injury
- blade, bones, joint, muscle, socket
- The bullet hit him squarely between the shoulder blades
- height, level
- width
- Keep the feet shoulder width apart
- harness, sling, strap
- injury
PREP
- over your ~
- He slung the sack over his shoulder and set off
PHRASES
- a pat on the shoulder
- He gave me a reassuring pat on the shoulder
- shoulder to shoulder
- The route of the procession was lined with police officers standing shoulder to shoulder
- tap sb on the shoulder
- I tapped the man on the shoulder and asked him to move
ADJ
- big, broad, great, huge, manly, massive, muscled, muscular, powerful, strong, wide
- delicate, shapely, slim
- narrow, thin
- square
- round
- bony
- bowed
- bare
- tense, tight
- tired
VERB + SHOULDER
- shrug
- When I asked him why he'd done it he just shrugged his shoulders
- hunch
- He hunched his shoulders against the cold wind
SHOULDER + VERB
- be bent, be bowed, be stooped
- She was crouched with her head forward and her shoulders bent
- droop, drop, sag, slump
- My shoulders dropped with relief
- lift, shrug
- Her shoulders lifted in a vague shrug
- heave, shake, twitch
- His enormous shoulders heaved with sobs
- stiffen, tighten
- relax
PREP
- on your ~s
- The child sat on her father's shoulders to watch the parade go by
VERB + SHOULDER
- have to, must
- She had to shoulder the burden of childcare
- be willing/unwilling to
- He was unwilling to shoulder this responsibility alone
ADV
- roughly
- We were shouldered roughly out of the way
- aside, out of the way
PHRASES
- shoulder your way past/through sb/sth
- She shouldered her way through the crowd