shambles

Speech parts

1. shambles - Noun

2. shambles - Verb

Meaning

a building where animals are butchered

a condition of great disorder

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

butchery abattoir slaughterhouse babel welter bedlam decimation maelstrom shamble disorder confusion disaster entropy chaos hash
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Antonyms

class order result system method structure
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Hypernyms

building disorder edifice disorderliness

Phrases with the word

in a shambles make a shambles of

Examples

Once there were islands all a-sprout with palms: and coral reefs and sands as white as milk. What is there now but a vast shambles of the heart? Filth, squalor, and a world of little men. Mervyn Peake

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. Zig Ziglar

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. William Gaddis

Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated. George Will

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. Frank Dobson

No meat ever remains in the shambles however bad it may be. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Shambhala shamble shambler Shamblin shambling shambling corpse