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lumbered

verb as in walk heavily, clumsily

verb as in burden

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That was nicer, maybe, when uncertainty didn’t lumber so heavily through our days.

The driver steered the truck to a lumber yard at the junction of Camarones and Norte 73 streets in the northwest of Mexico City.

The lumber was then transported to a factory or wood shop where it was cut, shaped, and fastened together.

Smith is the highlight, the wisp of a wide receiver and Heisman winner who the Buckeyes found so confounding to cover they ran everyone from elite cornerbacks to, um, lumbering middle linebackers at him, all to no avail.

If free-associating collages are the equivalent of random Web-surfing, the tidiness of the compositions is offset by surrounding them with found objects, blocks of lumber and strands of beads.

All antsy-ness dissipated when Kristian Nairn, a.k.a. Hodor, lumbered onstage.

Bush then lumbered him with a vast new bureaucracy now encompassing over 2,000 souls.

The normally debonair George Hamilton lumbered around the Stars stage during Season Two, lacking all of his usual grace.

The carriage turned about, and with Richard following lumbered back across the bridge and through the town to Lupton House.

He lumbered off and shortly returned with a counterpart of himself.

A 'bus lumbered sleepily over the bridge with three straining horses.

Also, traveling with a pack on one's back was much easier here than in the lumbered country.

He rose and rushed at the bird with clenched fist, cursing it as it lumbered awkwardly away.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lumbered, such as: slog, shuffle, trudge, waddle, plod, and stump.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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