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lumbered

lumbered adjective: trapped, encumbered. Also the simple past and past participle of lumber.

Adjective

lumbered (comparative more lumbered, superlative most lumbered)

  1. (slang) Trapped, encumbered.
    • ‘And you're going to marry her, are you? Or have you knocked her up?’
      ‘No. Neither.’
      ‘So you’re just going out? You’re not lumbered?’1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 22
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) In prison.
    • But I knew that he was married only a week ago, and never dreamt that he would leave his pretty wife to poke his nose into Banks's crib. What an infernal oversight on my part! And now — here I am, regularly lumbered; and all the swag arising from Kate Wilmot's business is in the hands of that...1859, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 303

Also used as

lumbered is also the simple past and past participle of lumber.

Forms of lumbered

comparativemore lumbered
superlativemost lumbered

Phrases with lumbered

Questions about lumbered

What does lumbered mean?
Lumbered means trapped, encumbered.
What part of speech is lumbered?
Lumbered is an adjective.

Words near lumbered in the dictionary

  1. lumber yards
  2. lumber-jacketed
  3. lumberdar
  4. lumberdars
  5. lumberdom
  6. lumbered
  7. lumbered with
  8. lumberer
  9. lumberers
  10. lumbering
  11. lumbering with

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