shambled

verb

past tense of shamble
as in shuffled
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 Synonyms for shambled
  1. shuffled
  2. stumbled
  3. stomped
Verb
  • Bulldozers shuffled right through the rubble to make roads that cut Gaza into separate sections.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
  • And before several services shuffled their rankings earlier this week, no QB ranked inside the top 20.
    — Grace Raynor, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Definition of shuffled
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  • But if the numbers hold up, Orange County may have stumbled onto something much bigger than baseball.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2026
  • After departing Ecuador en route to El Segundo, members of the crew stumbled upon an unexpected find inside the ship’s garbage — trash bags filled with cocaine, 430 pounds of it.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of stumbled
Verb
  • Cece got out of bed, put on a pair of fuzzy pink slippers, and stomped to her mother’s office.
    — Jessica Contrera, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • On Monday night, a 39-year-old man wearing a Spurs jersey was stomped and punched after Game 3 while walking down West 47th Street, about 15 blocks from the arena.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
Definition of stomped
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