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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cumber \cum"ber\ k?m"b?r, v. t. imp. p. p. cumbered
-b?rd; p. pr. vb. n. cumbering. oe. combren,
cumbren,of. combrer to hinder, from ll. cumbrus a heap, fr.
l. cumulus; cf. skr. ?? to increase, grow strong. cf.
cumulate.
to rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to
be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in
attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to
embarrass; to trouble.
1913 webster
why asks he what avails him not in fight,
and would but cumber and retard his flight? --dryden.
1913 webster
martha was cumbered about much serving. --luke x. 40.
1913 webster
cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? -- luke xiii.
7.
1913 webster
the multiplying variety of arguments, especially
frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory. --locke.
1913 webster
see also:
cumbered cumbering cumulate
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cumber \cum"ber\ k?m"b?r, n. cf. encombre hindrance,
impediment. see cuber,v.
trouble; embarrassment; distress. obs. written also
comber.
1913 webster
a place of much distraction and cumber. -- sir h.
wotton.
1913 webster
sage counsel in cumber. --sir w.
scott.
1913 webster cumberland
see also:
comber
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
cumber
v : hold back syn: restrain, encumber, constrain
see also:
restrain encumber constrain
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