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cumber

English

Alternative forms

  • cumbre (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English combren, borrowed from the second element of Old French encombrer.Cognate with German kümmern (“to take care of”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?mb?/
  • Rhymes: -?mb?(?)

Verb

cumber (third-person singular simple present cumbers, present participle cumbering, simple past and past participle cumbered)

  1. (transitive, dated) To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
    • Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
    • The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, […] but cumbers the memory.
    • 1886, Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel. Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:
      […] the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.

Synonyms

  • encumber

Derived terms

  • cumberground
  • cumbersome
  • cumberworld
  • cumbrous

Related terms

  • encumber
  • encumbrance

Translations

See also

  • Thesaurus:hinder

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cumber”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

  • cumbre, recumb

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combers

English

Noun

combers

  1. plural of comber

Anagrams

  • recombs, scomber

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