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Shambles   /ʃˈæmbəlz/   Listen
Shambles

noun
1.
A condition of great disorder.
2.
A building where animals are butchered.  Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, slaughterhouse.



Shamble

verb
(past & past part. shambled; pres. part. shambling)
1.
Walk by dragging one's feet.  Synonyms: scuffle, shuffle.  "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
noun
1.
Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet.  Synonyms: shambling, shuffle, shuffling.






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"Shambles" Quotes from Famous Books



... Squire yielded, ultimately, to the importunity of the baronet, and they entered the human shambles, where the cutters up were at work upon a subject, securing to themselves the advantage of personal experience, in the process of dissection; the abdomen had been already cleared out, and the corpse was portioned out to the different ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... church; that it still denies the right of private judgment; that it still thinks more of creed than truth; that it is still determined to prevent the intellectual growth of man. It means that churches are shambles in which are bought and sold the souls of men. It means that the church is still guilty of the barbarity of opposing thought with force. It means that if it had the power, the mental horizon would be bounded by a creed, that it would bring again the whips, and chains, and dungeon keys, ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

... to me, writing here, with all the evidences of war beneath my eyes, that every man born of woman's love on British soil should die between the decks, or find a grave in foundering ships of war, than that the foot of a foreign foe should touch the Motherland. Better that your ships be shambles, where men could die like men, sending Nelson's royal message all along the armoured line; better that our best and bravest found a grave where grey waves curl towards our coastline, than that our womanhood should look with woe-encircled eyes into the wolfish mouth of war. Better ...
— Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) - Letters from the Front • A. G. Hales

... (tint) nuanco. Shade nuanci. Shadow ombro. Shadowy hximera. Shaft (of vehicle) timono. Shaggy harplena. Shake sxanceli. Shake (jolt) skui. Shake (tremble) tremi. Shaking (jolting) skuo. Shake hands manpremi. Shallow malprofunda. Sham sxajnigxi. Sham sxajnigxo. Shambles bucxejo. Shame honto. Shame hontigi. Shameful hontinda. Shameless senhonta. Shank tibio. Shape formo. Shape formi. Share dividi. Share (finance) akcio. Share parto, porcio. Share partopreni. Shark sxarko. Sharp (music) duontono ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... been killed or wounded, and the village was on fire. The pools of blood which the frost had congealed, bubbled in the heat of the flames. None could escape; infants, old women, all must die. It was as ghastly a fight as was ever fought. The victors remained in the charred shambles till evening, resting and caring for their wounded; and then, as the snow began to fall, went back to Wickford, carrying the wounded with them. It is said that a thousand Indian warriors fell ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne


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