lumbered

verbwalk heavily, clumsily
verbburden

Synonyms for lumbered

verb walk heavily, clumsily

Antonyms for lumbered

Word Origin & History

"timber sawn into rough planks," 1660s, American English (Massachusetts), earlier "disused bit of furniture; heavy, useless objects" (1550s), probably from lumber (v.), perhaps influenced by Lombard, from the Italian immigrants famous as pawnbrokers and money-lenders in England (see Lombard). Lumbar, Lumbard were old alternative forms of Lombard in English. The evolution of sense then would be because a lumber-house ("pawn shop") naturally accumulates odds and ends of furniture.

Example Sentences for lumbered

And Jeff Rankin rose without a word and lumbered to the top of the hill.

Then the black bear decided to be afraid, and lumbered back into the bushes.

A cart, unmistakably a cart, lumbered across the stones at the end of the pier.

He gulped, blinked, heaved himself up, and lumbered after the others.

Stryker lumbered past him and took the controls, spiraling the Marco Four down.

The other man at the table arose, ponderously, and lumbered toward them.

Jack lumbered after him, instinctively bending his head, too.

The yoke snapped with a twang, and they lumbered off together.

The fisherman nodded and lumbered up the gangway followed by others.

As he finished speaking he lumbered away to rejoin his companions.