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cumber

[ kuhm-ber ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to hinder; hamper.
  2. to overload; burden.
  3. to inconvenience; trouble.


noun

  1. a hindrance.
  2. something that cumbers.
  3. Archaic. embarrassment; trouble.

cumber

/ ˈ°ìÊŒ³¾²úÉ™ /

verb

  1. to obstruct or hinder
  2. obsolete.
    to inconvenience
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a hindrance or burden
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¦³Ü³¾²ú±ð°ù±ð°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦³Ü³¾î€ƒb±ð°ù·±ð°ù noun
  • ³¦³Ü³¾î€ƒb±ð°ù·³¾±ð²Ô³Ù noun
  • ´Çv±ð°ù·³¦³Ü³¾î€ƒb±ð°ù verb (used with object)
  • ³Ü²Ô·³¦³Ü³¾î€ƒb±ð°ù±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cumber1

1250–1300; Middle English cumbre (noun), cumbren (v.), aphetic variant of acumbren to harass, defeat; encumber
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˜yÐÄvlog 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.â€

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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.â€

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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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