Usually means: Walking awkwardly with slow, shuffling steps.
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  1. shambling: Merriam-Webster
  2. shambling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shambling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shambling: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shambling, shambling: Wordnik
  6. shambling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shambling: Wiktionary
  8. shambling: Dictionary.com
  9. Shambling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. shambling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. shambling: Rhymezone
  12. Shambling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. shambling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. shambling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shambling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shambling: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See shamble as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Who walks while dragging or shuffling the feet.
▸ noun:  An awkward, irregular gait.

Similar:
shuffling, dragfooted, shambly, heavy-footed, shackly, clumpy, slowfooted, waddlesome, hobblesome, stumblesome, more...

Opposite:
erect, erected, upright

Types:
lurching, staggering, stumbling, faltering, wobbling, more...

Phrases:
does shambling rhyme with, more...

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Similar:
shuffling, dragfooted, shambly, heavy-footed, shackly, clumpy, slowfooted, waddlesome, hobblesome, stumblesome, more...

Opposite:
erect, erected, upright

Types:
lurching, staggering, stumbling, faltering, wobbling, more...

Phrases:
does shambling rhyme with, more...



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