| 单词 | lumbering |
| 释义 | lumbering (once / 2748 pages) 1adj 2n Someone who's lumbering moves in a heavy, ungainly way. The big, lumbering players on a football team tend to play defensive positions like lineman. You might normally skip lightly down the street, but when you're carrying two big suitcases and wearing a heavy backpack, you'll be a lumbering figure slowly making your way along the sidewalk. Your toy poodle might move easily, while your giant 150-pound Mastiff is a lumbering, drooling companion. This adjective comes from the verb lumber, from the earlier lomere, which has a Scandinavian root. WORD FAMILYlumbering: lumberingly, lumberings+/lumber: lumbered, lumbering, lumbers USAGE EXAMPLESThe Iraqi special forces are trying to compensate for lumbering armored military units. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) The metallic digits on this lumbering monstrosity are clearly intended to supplant the dexterity and fine motor control found in the human fingertips. Salon(Dec 27, 2016) The rest is left to Alec Baldwin: the puckered lips, a studied lumbering gait and a wariness of humanizing a man he reviles. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1 adj slow and laborious because of weight 2moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot Syn heavy, ponderous heavy-footed (of movement) lacking ease or lightness n the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber Hyper craft, trade the skilled practice of a practical occupation |
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