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Meanings of shamble in inglés

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Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet.

portugués
embaralhar
catalán
deambular

Walk by dragging one's feet.

embaralhar
Usage of shamble in inglés
1
It was a walk Laura recognized instantly, sort of a half-shamble, half-strut.
Mine
2
I stood in my doorway and watched him shamble off to bed.
Patient Zero
3
Then they take their handcarts and shamble slowly towards the farthest door.
The Fuller Memorandum
4
We passed an old woman hanging a shamble-man made of oat sheaves.
The Name of the Wind
5
I was surprised to see people setting up straw-stuffed shamble-men outside their homes.
The Name of the Wind
6
Saunders watched the bent form shamble between the counters and desks and disappear.
The Desired Woman
7
Bandits were fairly common, but there were also wicked uncles, stepmothers, and shamble-men.
The Wise Man’s Fear
8
They reined in to watch the hundred or so broken figures shamble past.
Forge of Darkness
9
His walk was a patient shamble, but he covered incredible distances.
Love Stories
10
Then he started gathering old faerie stories too, legends about bogies and shamble-men.
The Name of the Wind
11
They took in her pallor, her shamble, her vacant eyes and inarticulate groans.
Brains: a zombie memoir
12
The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
13
The sudden ray shot keen and pure into that shamble.
The Cloister and the Hearth
14
They began to rise, to shamefacedly shamble toward the door.
The Nine-Tenths
15
There were pages on the shamble-men, rendlings, and the trow.
The Wise Man’s Fear
16
Flen watched them shamble idly about, cropping the grass with their wide, rubbery mouths.
The skein of lament
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Translations for shamble
portugués
embaralhar
Shamble through the time