shambles vs building

shambles and building both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shambles	Yes	No	No	No
building	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, building is a hypernym of shambles; that is, building is a word with a broader meaning than shambles:

shambles: a building where animals are butchered
building: a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

Other hypernyms of shambles include edifice.

shambles (noun)	building (noun)
a building where animals are butchered	the act of constructing something
a condition of great disorder	the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
	a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
	the occupants of a building