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scambled

scambled is the simple past and past participle of scamble.

Meaning of scamble

Verb

scamble (third-person singular simple present scambles, present participle scambling, simple past and past participle scambled)

  1. (intransitive) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
    • Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them […]1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61
  2. (intransitive) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
    • How easy dost thou take all England up!
      From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
      The life, the right and truth of all this realm
      Is fled to heaven; and England now is left
      To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
      The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.1596, Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III
  3. (transitive) To mangle.
    • finding my Wood cut in Patches , and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its Growth1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC
  4. (transitive) To squander.

Questions about scambled

What is scambled the simple past and past participle of?
Scambled is the simple past and past participle of scamble.

Words near scambled in the dictionary

  1. scambaiter
  2. scambaiters
  3. scambaiting
  4. scambaits
  5. scamble
  6. scambled
  7. scambler
  8. scamblers
  9. scambles
  10. Scamblesby
  11. scambling

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