Shamble

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  • intransitive verb. To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.
  • noun. A shuffling gait.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A shambling walk or gait.
  • To slaughter; destine to the shambles.
  • To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if with weak knees.
  • noun. A footstool.
  • noun. A bench; especially, a bench or stall in a market on which goods are exposed for sale. Specifically plural The tables or stalls on or in which butchers expose meat for sale; hence, a fresh-or meat-market.
  • noun. plural A slaughter-house; a place of butchery: sometimes treated as a singular.
  • noun. In mining. See shammel, 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
  • noun. A place where butcher's meat is sold.
  • noun. A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
  • intransitive verb. To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. walk by dragging one's feet
  • noun. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
  • Word Usage
    "The economy is in shamble, his rating has plunged lower than any president's in recent history."
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    Hypernym
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    walk  walking  
    Rhyme
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disarray  gulph  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    amble  andante  barge  bowl along  bundle  
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