Synonyms of shamble

shamble

verb

ˈsham-bəl 

as in to shuffle

to move heavily or clumsily

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffle
• stumble
• stomp
• trudge
• lurch
• slough
• barge
• clump
• lump
• flounder
• stagger
• drag
• weave
• plod
• stump
• galumph
• tramp
• haul
• stamp
• slog
• scuff
• scuffle
• pound
• lumber
• flog
• tromp
• waddle
• sway
• totter
• flop
• blunder
• wabble
• careen
• reel
• dodder
• wobble
• teeter

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• coast
• slide
• breeze
• glide
• waltz
• whisk
• float
• hang
• drift
• hover
• waft
• poise

Examples of shamble in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Ray Fisher incarnates, with natural majesty, the brawn and bravado of Muhammad Ali; Edwin Lee Gibson shambles and stammers as Stepin Fetchit while retaining the dignity of a canny survivor. —Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023

That baggy, shambling gang of tuneless no-hopers swept along on the glassy-eyed tide of post-acid house euphoria? —Jonathan Bernstein, SPIN, 7 June 2023

The franchise's latest spinoff, The Walking Dead: Dead City, which sics its shambling hordes on New York City, premieres this summer. —Christian Holub, EW.com, 11 May 2023

With zombie stories saturating popular culture, the lore in TV and film began to expand beyond the simple trope of shambling brain eaters. —Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, Popular Science, 4 May 2023