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Word of the Day: Lumber (verb)
How’s this for a word?
Many nouns can be turned into verbs in English.
They do not always have similar meanings, though.
For example, rain is a noun and raining is a verb version of rain.
They both have connected meanings.
Well, lumber is a noun and lumbering is the verb version, but the meanings are entirely different.
Lumber is pieces of wooden boards, but lumbering means moving very slowly or awkwardly because of size or weight.
Remember the old double-decker buses in London?
They were big, and they did not move very quickly.
They moved even more slowly when it was raining.
We can say that they lumbered down the road.
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