as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily
disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room
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Recent Examples of shamble
One nickname — Zombie tranq — reflects shambling from deep sedation.
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Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025
Its ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
To this end, the new generation of morticians (another neologism meant to conjure expertise) bought up shambling Victorian mansions in swish residential districts and invented a new form of comfort.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
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Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025
Its ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
To this end, the new generation of morticians (another neologism meant to conjure expertise) bought up shambling Victorian mansions in swish residential districts and invented a new form of comfort.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shamble
Verb
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Fuller has pushed back on these claims by sharing the app's source code for shuffling and dealing virtual cards.—
Andrew Montequin,
jsonline.com,
29 July 2025
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Short, shuffling steps often prevent your glutes from firing properly.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
24 July 2025
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Symptoms include shivering, memory loss, stumbling, confusion and sleepiness.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
23 July 2025
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But the Mets’ rotation stumbled in the second half of June and into the All-Star break.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
22 July 2025
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Reed and Sue, of course, refuse, so the Fantastic Four try to rally humanity and get ready for Galactus to stomp around Manhattan, Godzilla style.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
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The bird didn’t let up until the man basically stomped its head down on the ground and held it there.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 July 2025
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“Shamble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamble. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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