shambles
sham·bles / ˈshambəlz/ • pl. n. [treated as sing.] 1. inf. a state of total disorder: my career was in a shambles.2. a butcher's slaughterhouse (archaic except in place names). ∎ a scene of carnage: the room was a shambles—their throats had been cut and they lay in a waste of blood.
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