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Meaning of scamble | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
ˈskæmbəl

Definitions

  1. To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
  2. To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
  3. To mangle.
  4. To squander.

Examples

“Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them […]”
“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.”
“finding my Wood cut in Patches , and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its Growth”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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