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Noun shuffling has 2 senses

shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling - walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
--₁ is a kind of walk, walking

Derived form: verb shuffle₁
shuffle, shuffling, make - the act of mixing cards haphazardly
--₂ is a kind of reordering
--₂ is a part of card game, cards
--₂ has particulars: reshuffle, reshuffling; riffle
Derived form: verb shuffle₃

Verb shuffle has 3 senses

shuffle, scuffle, shamble - walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
--₁ is one way to walk

Derived forms: noun shuffler₂, noun shuffle₂, noun shuffling₁
Sample sentence:
The children shuffle to the playground
shuffle - move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"
--₂ is one way to transfer, shift
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
shuffle, ruffle, mix - mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"
--₃ is one way to manipulate

Derived forms: noun shuffler₁, noun shuffle₁, noun shuffling₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something