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cum·ber

[kuhm-ber] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used with object)

1.	to hinder; hamper.

2.	to overload; burden.

3.	to inconvenience; trouble.

–noun

4.	a hindrance.

5.	something that cumbers.

6.	Archaic. embarrassment; trouble.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME cumbre (n.), cumbren (v.), aph. var. of acumbren to harass, defeat; see encumber

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—Related forms

cum·ber·er, noun

cum·ber·ment, noun

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cum·ber (kŭm'bər) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. cum·bered, cum·ber·ing, cum·bers

To weigh down; burden: was cumbered with many duties.
To hamper or hinder, as by being in the way: was cumbered with a long poncho.
To litter; clutter up: Weeds cumbered the garden paths.
Archaic To bother; distress.

n. A hindrance; an encumbrance.

[Middle English combren, to annoy, from Old French combrer, from combre, hindrance, from Vulgar Latin *comboros, of Celtic origin.]

cum'ber·er n.

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cumber
verb
hold back [syn: restrain]

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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.

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.

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Cumber

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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