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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kuhm-ber |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌm bər |
Definition of cumber
Origin :- c.1300, "to overthrow, destroy; to be overwhelmed; to harass," apparently from French, but Old French combrer "to seize hold of, lay hands on, grab, snatch, take by force, rape," has not quite the same sense. Perhaps a shortened formation from a verb akin to Middle English acombren "obstructing progress," from Old French encombrer, from combre "obstruction, barrier," from Vulgar Latin *comboros "that which is carried together," perhaps from a Gaulish word.
- The likely roots are PIE *kom (see com-) + *bher- (1) "to bear" (see infer). Weakened sense of "to hamper, to obstruct or weigh down" is late 14c. Related: Cumbered; cumbering.
- verb hamper
- Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious?
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Two men abreast could not beset him, since one must cumber the movements of the other.
- Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
- God had at any rate decreed that this man should not cumber it as a drone.
- Extract from : « The Romany Rye » by George Borrow
- You don't imagine of what service Lord Cumber and I could be of to you.
- Extract from : « Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent » by William Carleton
- God had, at any rate, decreed that this man should not cumber it as a drone.
- Extract from : « The Romany Rye » by George Borrow
- We cannot spare the time to take them now, or cumber ourselves with them when taken.
- Extract from : « With Airship and Submarine » by Harry Collingwood
- I have not wished to cumber my pages with constant quotations.
- Extract from : « Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John » by William Alexander
- How much longer is that Joseph to be allowed to cumber London?
- Extract from : « The Angel » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
- Money was given him, but not in such abundance as to cumber his march.
- Extract from : « The Mercenary » by W. J. Eccott
- You do but cumber yourselves to hear tales and fables against him.
- Extract from : « Finger-Ring Lore » by William Jones
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