Shoulder
Shoulder verb - To take to or upon oneself.
Tow and shoulder are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tow" instead a verb "Shoulder".
Nearby Words: shouldered, shouldering
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| car | shoulder car | tow car |
Both words in one sentence
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Artistic License Physics: The bus side-swipes a car on the shoulder, which is being loaded onto a tow truck.
Source: Film / Speed -
In the Futurama episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" Fry and Amy's car breaks down on Mercury, leaving them stranded with hours to kill before the tow truck arrives.
Source: Auto Erotica - Anti-Armor: The game has several varieties of anti-tank weaponry; the Light and Heavy Anti-Tank classes which carry shoulder-fired rocket launchers and man-portable missile launchers, as well as tripod and vehicle-mounted anti-tank missiles such as the TOW and HJ-8.
Source: Video Game / Project Reality
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Tow and Shoulder. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/shoulder/tow
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