About The Word Cumber
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Cumber
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What's The Definition Of Cumber?
[v] hold back
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cumber: constrain | encumber | restrain Related Terms | Find terms related to Cumber: See Also | bound | bridle | clog | confine | curb | limit | restrict | throttle | trammel Cumber In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would but
cumber and retard his flight? --Dryden.
Martha was cumbered about much serving. --Luke x. 40.
Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? -- Luke xiii.
7.
The multiplying variety of arguments, especially
frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory. --Locke.
\Cum"ber\ (k?m"b?r), n. [Cf. encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber,v.] Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also {comber}.] A place of much distraction and cumber. -- Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. --Sir W. Scott. |
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