Meaning & use
lumbered
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Moved in a slow, heavy, and clumsy way, or burdened someone with an unwanted task or responsibility.
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The exhausted bear lumbered back to its den after the long search for food.
She was lumbered with cleaning up the entire mess after everyone else left.
A note on using this word
In British informal usage, 'lumbered with' means saddled or burdened with something unwelcome, a very different sense from the physical 'lumbered along.'
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