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Slumbered vs Lumbered - What's the difference?

slumbered | lumbered |

As verbs the difference between slumbered and lumbered

is that slumbered is (slumber) while lumbered is (lumber).

slumbered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (slumber)

    • slumber

    English

    (wikipedia slumber)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
    • He at last fell into a slumber , and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. — Bunyan.
    Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber . — Shakespeare.
    Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. — Dryden.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
  • * Bible, Psalms cxxi. 4
    • He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
  • To be inactive or negligent.
  • (obsolete) To lay to sleep.
    • (Wotton)
  • (obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.
    • (Spenser)

    See also

    * catnap * doze * nap * shuteye * slumber party

    Anagrams

    *

    lumbered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lumber)

    • lumber

    English

    (wikipedia lumber)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
  • * 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
    • Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber ;
  • Useless things that are stored away
  • * 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
    • The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,
  • A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
  • * Lady Murray
    • They put all the little plate they had in the lumber , which is pawning it, till the ships came.

    Synonyms

    * timber * wood

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to move clumsily
  • * 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
    • ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.
  • to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
  • * 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
    • The mean utensils, pewter measures, empty cans and casks, with which this room was lumbered , proclaimed it that of the host, who slept surrounded by his professional implements of hospitality and stock-in-trade.
  • To heap together in disorder.
  • * Rymer
    • stuff lumbered together
  • To fill or encumber with lumber.
    • to lumber up a room

    Related terms

    * lumbering

    Anagrams

    * * English terms with unknown etymologies