shambles
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈʃæmbəlz/
- Informal
:
desastre
- The renovation left the house in complete shambles, with furniture turned upside down.
When Russia was in shambles from from the revolution.
- When Russia was in shambles from from the revolution.
- It was, it was just a shambles from the off.
- His life is in shambles and and things are falling apart.
- So I had a sort of front, front row seat view of that because it was a total shambles the the whole campaign.
- So don't force people to do what they don't want to do because it ends up in shambles.
- So just imagine like shambles, like everything broke down in a decade and a half of war.
- And maybe they don't need me because this entire time that I've had them, our life has been in shambles.
- Wait, Speaking of fake friendships, how quick would you recover if I broke up with you as friend, It'd be I'd be I'd be in shambles.
- I'd been on a Bender and he just said you were a shambles in boot camp and we wanted to help, you know what I mean?
- We're going on one week now and they are still in a shambles over there.
Examples
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It's a regular morning here and I'm going to be honest, it's like the studio is kind of in shambles recently.
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Bye and hopefully next next video will be a bit less of a shambles than this one was.
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We're going on one week now and they are still in a shambles over there.
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And yeah, I was, I was fat and I was, I was out of shape and my life was just in shambles all around me.
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So I had a sort of front, front row seat view of that because it was a total shambles the the whole campaign.
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But all of this clearing up a shocking shambles and mess left by the last Labour government.
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It was, it was just a shambles from the off.
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AND NOW YOU THINK I NEED THE MONEY, AND MY LIFE IS A SHAMBLES.
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Why is it that a loss "LEAVES A CAREER IN SHAMBLES"?
Blog text (26) -
After the party, the living room was in shambles with empty bottles everywhere.
Synonyms
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1.0
A situation in which things are untidy and confused
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3.1
A situation with no order where people are confused and cannot act normally
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4.8
A time of great confusion and disorder
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3.7
A state in which things or places are not arranged
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8.0
A loud, wild situation of disorder and confusion
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5.0
A confused, disorganized situation where things are not in order
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1.6
Something that is untidy and not in order
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8.2
A noisy scene where people are confused and out of control
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3.8
A lack of order or system that makes things untidy
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8.4
A very large, messy situation that is hard to fix
A situation with things all over and people confused
A state of confusion where things are unclear or messy
A confused, messy situation when plans go wrong
A confused, messy situation where plans go wrong
A very messy place or situation
A situation that is very messy and badly managed
In a state of complete confusion because of a mistake or bad planning
A very messy, confused mix of things in one place
Antonyms
How Messy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shambles comes from an old English word scamel meaning 'stool' or 'bench', because those benches were the butchers' stalls where animals were killed and the area was often bloody and messy. So shambles grew to mean 'a scene of mess' and today we use it for any place in complete disorder.