different between dumber vs cumber
dumber
English
Adjective
dumber
- comparative form of dumb: more dumb
Anagrams
- bedrum, bumder
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse dumbr, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz.
Adjective
dumber
- mute, unable to speak
- muffled
- obtuse, blunt
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: dum
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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)
- (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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