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shrug

1 verb
     
shrug1 W3 past tense and past participle shrugged, present participle shrugging [intransitive and transitive]
to raise and then lower your shoulders in order to show that you do not know something or do not care about something:
I just shrugged my shoulders and ignored him.
Melanie shrugged and walked away.

shrug something ↔ off

phrasal verb
to treat something as unimportant and not worry about it:
We can't just shrug these objections off.
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