shambles meaning
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- Wiktionary (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: shambles (Noun) a scene of great disorder or ruin. shambles (Noun) a great mess or clutter. This website is a shambles. shambles (Noun) a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation. shambles (Noun) a slaughterhouse. shambles (Noun) a butcher's shop. Origin: From scamul. A borrowing from scamellum, diminutive of scamnum.
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debacle Princeton's WordNet (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: debacle, fiasco (noun) a sudden and violent collapse. debacle (noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer. thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping (noun) a sound defeat
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- Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
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Shambles Fun Facts about the name Shambles How unique is the name Shambles? Out of 5,838,786 records in the U.S. Social Security Administration public data, the first name Shambles was not present. It is possible the name you are searching has less than five occurrences per year.
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- (n.) A person whose behavior resembles a rapid, spinning object. These actions are often spastic fidgeting and incessant babbling. The actions of the whirling dervish are irritating and annoying, often exhausting other people in the immediate vicinity. The phrase is derived from these 2 words: Whirling. 1.) adj. moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting motion.
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Definitions &Translations Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  droop(Noun) something which is limp or sagging; a condition or posture of drooping. He walked with a discouraged droop. 2  droop(Verb) To sink or hang downward; to sag. I'm not handsome in the classical sense. 3  droop(Verb) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
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Sham Name meaning14Likes Sham is a Hindu baby Boy name, it is an Hindi originated name. Sham name meaning is Strong Person; Lord Krishna and the lucky number associated with Sham is --. Find all the relevant details about the Sham Meaning, Origin, Lucky Number and Religion from this page. Average rating of Sham is 5 stars, based on 5 reviews.
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Definition of dribble in English: noun. 1  1A thin stream of liquid; a trickle. 2  2(in soccer, hockey, and basketball) an act of taking the ball forward with repeated slight touches or bounces.
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straw 11. sham; fictitious. 1. catch, clutch, or grasp at a straw or at straws, to pursue even the slightest hope or possibility out of desperation. 2. straw in the wind, a piece of information foreshadowing future events.
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pauper A pauper sleeps on the street. noun. The definition of a pauper is a poor person or someone with limited or no financial resources. A very poor person living on the streets with no money is an example of a pauper. pauper. pauper.
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rag 1 a worthless piece of cloth, esp. one that is torn or worn. rags, ragged or tattered clothing:The tramp was dressed in rags. any article of apparel regarded deprecatingly or self-deprecatingly, esp. a dress:It's just an old rag I had in the closet. a shred, scrap, or fragmentary bit of anything.
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What is THC? THC is one of many compounds found in the resin secreted by glands of the marijuana plant. More of these glands are found around the reproductive organs of the plant than on any other area of the plant.Other compounds unique to marijuana, called cannabinoids, are present in this resin. type of cannabis that has a minimal amount of THC, as low as 0.5 percent, is hemp, according to the North American Industrial Hemp Council. Hemp is used for industrial and medical purposes. Some strains of cannabis can have as little as 0.3 percent THC by weight.
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- adjective, wretcheder, wretchedest. 1. very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable. 2. characterized by or attended with misery and sorrow. 3. despicable, contemptible, or mean: a wretched miser. 4. poor, sorry, or pitiful; worthless:
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despair 1.Despair, desperation, despondency, discouragement, hopelessness refer to a state of mind caused by circumstances that seem too much to cope with. Despair suggests total loss of hope, which may be passive or may drive one to furious efforts, even if at random: in the depths of despair; courage born of despair.
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Definitions &Translations Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  shambles(noun) a condition of great disorder. 2  abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse(noun) a building where animals are butchered.
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Definitions &Translations The Nuttall Encyclopedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Belial. properly a good-for-nothing, a child of worthlessness; an incarnation of iniquity and son of perdition, and the name in the Bible for the children of such.
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- Definition of pauper. 1  1 : a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity; specifically : one who receives aid from funds designated for the poor paupers on welfare. 2  2 : a very poor person you'll end up a pauper on skid row — Robert Bixby.
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Words  to the Wise The meaning of English grabble is to feel or search with the hands, to grope about. That's exactly what those possibly foolhardy fishermen you speak of were doing. Grabble dates in English from the mid 16th century. We even find this quotation from a gloss of 1869: 'To grabble for trout;' i.e. to grope in holes for them.
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- mangle1. 1  to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, or crushing: The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine. 2  to spoil; ruin; mar badly: to mangle a text by careless typesetting.
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spinning spinning. 1  heckle - First a flax comb for splitting and straightening the fibers for spinning; its metaphorical sense developed from its verb form, to mangle by cutting, to cut roughly.. distaff side, spear side - The female side of a family is the distaff side—the distaff being a stick used for holding yarn when spinning; the male side is the spear side.
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- Question: What is a parable?. Answer: A parable is, literally, something cast alongside something else. Jesus parables were stories that were cast alongside a truth in order to illustrate that truth. His parables were teaching aids and can be thought of as extended analogies or inspired comparisons.nswer: A parable is, literally, something cast alongside something else. Jesus parables were stories that were cast alongside a truth in order to illustrate that truth.
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sack Learner's definition of SACK. 1. [count] : a bag that is made of strong paper, cloth, or plastic. a sack containing flour = a sack of flour. sacks of cement. a grocery sack.
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How much coffee is safe? Limiting your caffeine intake. You don’t need to cut caffeine out completely, but you should limit how much you have to no more than 200mg a day. Try decaffeinated tea and coffee, fruit juice or water, and limit the amount of energy drinks you have, as they can be high in caffeine.
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- Full Definition of HOPELESS. 1. a: having no expectation of good or success: despairing b: not susceptible to remedy or cure c: incapable of redemption or improvement. 2.
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- Definition of sham. 1  1 : a trick that deludes : hoax feared that the deal was a sham. 2  2 : cheap falseness : hypocrisy saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant — Oscar Wilde. 3  3 : an ornamental covering for a pillow.  4 : an imitation or counterfeit purporting to be 1  genuine. 5 : a person who shams.
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- verb (used without object), mumbled, mumbling. 1. to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter. 2. to chew ineffectively, as from loss of teeth: to mumble on a crust. verb (used with object), mumbled, mumbling.