I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lumber room
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Djindjic told a rally at Republic Square that Milosevic was trying to lumber the police with responsibility for failed government policy.
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I was lumbered with one hairstyle and that's the way it would stay.
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Instead of proceeding at his normal brisk trot, he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine's cabin.
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She lumbered out of bed, reached for the too recently removed dressing-gown and took herself off to her bathroom.
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The Red Flag taxi lumbered off into the night.
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Two Hearthwares, huge in their armour, lumbered over to join in the fray.
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We chat about the lumbering, and the latest antics at Mount Blue, in my neck of the woods.
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With that, he stood and slowly lumbered his way down the patch.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fast-growing forest trees could do more than increase the world's sup ply of lumber and pulp.
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I love these woods, even as we harvest lumber from them.
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Only a pile of broken concrete, loose bricks and splintered lumber remained.