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Antonyms for shamble

Grammar : Verb
Spell : sham-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃæm bəl

Definition of shamble

Origin :
  • "to walk with a shuffling gait, walk awkwardly and unsteadily," 1680s, from an adjective meaning "ungainly, awkward" (c.1600), from shamble (n.) "table, bench" (see shambles), perhaps on the notion of the splayed legs of bench, or the way a worker sits astride it. Cf. French bancal "bow-legged, wobbly" (of furniture), properly "bench-legged," from banc "bench." The noun meaning "a shambling gait" is from 1828. Related: Shambled; shambling.
  • verb shuffle
Example sentences :
  • Yes, that she would, and all at once the pails began to shamble up the hill.
  • Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various
  • The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher.
  • Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
  • He did not shamble along, as though his courage had been driven from his body.
  • Extract from : « Footprints in the Forest » by Edward Sylvester Ellis
  • The men were past revolt now, they could only shamble dizzily about.
  • Extract from : « Beggars on Horseback » by F. Tennyson Jesse
  • They could not walk, they could only shamble; they could not laugh, they could only leer.
  • Extract from : « The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition » by Upton Sinclair
  • Chief George waited for no second bidding, but began to shamble off across the snow towards his encampment.
  • Extract from : « A Mating in the Wilds » by Ottwell Binns
  • I gave her a pat on the chin scarcely consistent with my aged and tottering mien and proceeded to shamble painfully to my room.
  • Extract from : « A Strange Disappearance » by Anna Katharine Green
  • Don't you realize that they have watched man creep out of primal slimes, take limbs and shamble, and finally walk?
  • Extract from : « Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940 » by Ray Bradbury
  • Scammell preserves an older form of shamble(s), originally the benches on which meat was exposed for sale.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • The fisherman turned away to shamble noisily over the shingle, huge booted heels crunching, toward one of the dories.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

Synonyms for shamble

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