shambles – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
shambles
n.
disorder, mess; disastrous state or condition; slaughterhouse, place where animals are butchered for meat; place of carnage
shamble
v.
walk clumsily, shuffle, walk awkwardly
n.
shuffle, clumsy stride, awkward gait
Shambles
"Shambles" is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market. In contemporary usage, a shambles is a mess.
shambles
Noun
1. a condition of great disorder
(hypernym) disorderliness, disorder
2. a building where animals are butchered
(synonym) abattoir, butchery, slaughterhouse
(hypernym) building, edifice
shamble
Noun
1. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
(synonym) shambling, shuffle, shuffling
(hypernym) walk, walking
(derivation) shuffle, scuffle
Verb
1. walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
(synonym) shuffle, scuffle
(hypernym) walk
(hyponym) scuff, drag
(derivation) shambling, shuffle, shuffling
shambles
Synonyms and related words:
Augean stables, Belsen, DMZ, abattoir, aceldama, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, bloodbath, blue ruin, botch, botchery, breakup, butchering, butchery, carnage, chaos, combat area, combat zone, concentration camp, consumption, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disaster, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, enemy line, field, field of battle, field of blood, firing line, front line, gas chamber, hash, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, killing ground, landing beach, line, line of battle, mess, mix-up, muddle, mull, muss, occision, perdition, pigpen, pigsty, ravage, ruin, ruination, seat of war, slaughter, slaughterhouse, slaughtering, spoliation, stockyard, the front, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, undoing, vandalism, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, zone of communications
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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