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as in dump
a dirty or messy place
this room is a shambles—clean it up right now!
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as in mess
a state in which everything is out of order
the earthquake left the whole town in a shambles
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as in shuffles
to move heavily or clumsily
disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room
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“Shambles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shambles. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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