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SHAMBLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

Example:

from his shambling I assumed he was very old

Synonyms:

shamble; shambling; shuffle; shuffling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Derivation:

shamble (walk by dragging one's feet)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk by dragging one's feet

Example:

We heard his feet shuffling down the hall

Synonyms:

scuffle; shamble; shuffle

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

Derivation:

shamble; shambling (walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet)

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 Context examples: 

As twilight fell the old bull stood with lowered head, watching his mates—the cows he had known, the calves he had fathered, the bulls he had mastered—as they shambled on at a rapid pace through the fading light.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

With him came Aylward and Hordle John, armed as of old, but mounted for their journey upon a pair of clumsy Landes horses, heavy-headed and shambling, but of great endurance, and capable of jogging along all day, even when between the knees of the huge archer, who turned the scale at two hundred and seventy pounds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One moment Alleyne saw the galley's poop crowded with rushing figures, waving arms, exultant faces; the next it was a blood-smeared shambles, with bodies piled three deep upon each other, the living cowering behind the dead to shelter themselves from that sudden storm-blast of death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)