[no obj] : to move in a slow or awkward way
▪ The parade lumbers through town once a year. ▪ We saw an elephant lumbering along the road. ▪ trucks lumbering [=rumbling] down the street ▪ an animal with a lumbering gait — sometimes used figuratively ▪ The economy continues to lumber along. ▪ a big, lumbering [=slow and awkward] bureaucracy
▪ The parade lumbers through town once a year. ▪ We saw an elephant lumbering along the road. ▪ trucks lumbering [=rumbling] down the street ▪ an animal with a lumbering gait — sometimes used figuratively ▪ The economy continues to lumber along. ▪ a big, lumbering [=slow and awkward] bureaucracy
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