ˈshambled, ppl. a.
[f. shamble v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Cut up or slaughtered as in the shambles. rare.
| 1900 Daily News 26 May 3/3 To..slaughter the British soldiers like shambled deer. |
2. U.S. Wrecked, ruined. Cf. shamble n.1 5 b.
| 1940 Newsweek 17 June 21/2 (caption) Nazis photographed the shambled Dunkerque's water front. 1952 Time 11 Aug. 25/1 (caption) Reconstruction of the shambled town..is expected to take at least five years. |