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• n  a condition of great disorder
• n  a building where animals are butchered
• n  walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
• v  walk by dragging one's feet

• With Hwang's scientific credibility in shambles, the status of the world's most famous dog hangs in the balance.
• A couple of drinks, a quiet dinner, brandy and cigars before the inn fireand imperceptibly, from behind the urbanity and wit emerge the true facts of a marriage in shambles or .
• Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government and his Conservative Party lay in shambles.

• abattoir
• butchery
• slaughterhouse
• shamble
• shambling
• shuffle
• shuffling
• scuffle

News & Articles

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• Sheraden cemetery receives much-needed treatment
  A Sheraden cemetery is receiving some much-needed treatment after a man contacted Channel 11 News asking for action. Frank McQuellin said Heritage Cemetery, where his loved ones are buried, has been in shambles for some time. According to McQuellin, he’s frustrated that the grave markers are hard to see and that the grass is over 2 feet tall in some places. “You can’t even make out half of these ...
  June 15, 2013 - WPXI Pittsburgh
• Manslaughter suspect's wife nervous about Spokane trial
  SPOKANE, Wash. -- The wife of the Gail Gerlach said their life has been in shambles since the fatal shooting of Brendon Kaluza-Graham back in March. Gail Gerlach is accused of fatally shooting Kaluza-Graham who was allegedly in the process of stealing his SUV. He pleaded not guilty and was released on his recognizance. Gerlach’s wife Sharon said her family was very nervous before he went to ...
  June 13, 2013 - KREM.com Spokane
• Atascadero Explosion Leaves Three Businesses In Shambles
  After a fiberglass repair shop in Atascadero explodes, leaving three businesses in shambles, a community begins to digest their loss.
  June 12, 2013 - FOX 11 Santa Maria

Quotes

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• Warren Buffett in ABC News
  Buffett wrote he's certain "the economy will be in shambles throughout 2009 - and, for that matter, probably well beyond - but that conclusion does not tell us whether the stock market will rise or fall."
• Barack Obama in Columbus Telegram
  Our economy is in a shambles,Obama said at a town hall meeting at a community college near Pittsburgh. "This economy is contracting, it is heading toward recession. We probably already are in one."
• Lana Clarkson in International Herald Tribune
  This has been definitely the most difficult year of my life. My finances are a shambles and I am on the verge of losing everything,Clarkson wrote in an e-mail months before she died.