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shambling

verb , present participle of shamble

Synonyms and Antonyms of shambling

to move heavily or clumsily

disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room

Synonyms of shambling

barging, clumping, flogging [British], floundering, galumphing, lumbering, lumping, plodding, pounding, scuffing, scuffling, shuffling, slogging, sloughing, stamping, stomping, stumbling, stumping, tramping, tromping, trudging

Words Related to shambling

dragging, flopping, hauling

blundering, careening, doddering, lurching, reeling, staggering, swaying, teetering, tottering, waddling, weaving, wobbling (also wabbling)

Near Antonyms of shambling

drifting, floating, hanging, hovering, poising, wafting

Antonyms of shambling

breezing, coasting, gliding, sliding, waltzing, whisking

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