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SHAMBLE

Pronunciation (US):

• SHAMBLE (noun)
The noun SHAMBLE has 1 sense:

1. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Familiarity information: SHAMBLE used as a noun is very rare.

• SHAMBLE (verb)
The verb SHAMBLE has 1 sense:

1. walk by dragging one's feet

Familiarity information: SHAMBLE used as a verb is very rare.

• SHAMBLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shamble; shambling; shuffling; shuffle

Context example:

from his shambling I assumed he was very old

Hypernyms ("shamble" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

• SHAMBLE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Walk by dragging one's feet

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

scuffle; shamble; shuffle

Context examples:

he shuffled out of the room / We heard his feet shuffling down the hall

Hypernyms (to "shamble" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shamble"):

drag; scuff (walk without lifting the feet)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

"Hunger makes good kitchen."
(English proverb)
"There is no man nor thing without his defect, and often they have two or three of them"
(Breton proverb)
"Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on."
(Arabic proverb)
"Still waters wash out banks."
(Czech proverb)

Useful links:
Definition of walk
Pronunciation of scuff
Definition of walk
Pronunciation of drag
Definition of walking

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