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cumber
[ kuhm-ber ]
verb (used with object)
- to hinder; hamper.
- to overload; burden.
- to inconvenience; trouble.
noun
- a hindrance.
- something that cumbers.
- Archaic. embarrassment; trouble.
cumber
/ ˈʌə /
verb
- to obstruct or hinder
- obsolete.to inconvenience
noun
- a hindrance or burden
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Derived Forms
- ˈܳ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ܳb· noun
- ܳb·Գ noun
- v·ܳb verb (used with object)
- ܲ·ܳb adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cumber1
C13: probably from Old French combrer to impede, prevent, from combre barrier; see encumber
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Theodore Roosevelt had already warned what would befall an Indian who refused his allotment: “Let him, like these whites, who will not work, perish from the face of the earth which he cumbers.”
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Adam objected, “and art cumbered with crutches as well. And how wilt thou cross the river? The bridge is well guarded at both ends.”
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It made him feel cumbered and foolish, and he wondered once more why he was here.
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Within these modest limits we have brought the greater part of that monstrous host of crosses which cumber the dictionaries.
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In every day of his life he was occupied with many things, but he was never cumbered.
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