lumber
/ˈlʌm.bɚ/ verb C2- To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
- To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on. · They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases.· I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon.
- To heap together in disorder.
- To fill or encumber with lumber. · to lumber up a room
He/she/it lumbers · Past lumbered · Past participle lumbered · -ing form lumbering
Verb forms
- Base form
- lumber
- He/she/it
- lumbers
- Past
- lumbered
- Past participle
- lumbered
- -ing form
- lumbering
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Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles.
A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
Mice among the lumber.
“It was black enough before against this young man, but our inquiries make it blacker,” he remarked as the cab lumbered off.
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