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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To weigh down; burden: was cumbered with many duties.
  2. v. To hamper or hinder, as by being in the way: was cumbered with a long poncho.
  3. v. To litter; clutter up: Weeds cumbered the garden paths.
  4. v. Archaic To bother; distress.
  5. n. A hindrance; an encumbrance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To burden or obstruct with or as with a load or weight, or any impediment; load excessively or uselessly; press upon; choke up; clog.
  2. To be a clog to; hinder by obstruction; hamper in movement.
  3. To trouble; perplex; embarrass; distract.
  4. n. That which cumbers; a burden; a hindrance; an obstruction.
  5. n. Embarrassment; disturbance; distress; trouble.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, dated To slow down, to hinder, to burden.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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.
  2. n. obsolete Trouble; embarrassment; distress.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. hold back

Etymologies

  1. From the Middle English combren. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English combren, to annoy, from Old French combrer, from combre, hindrance, from Vulgar Latin *comboros, of Celtic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • madmouth how it minces! there should be a "Mincing words" list Sep 15, 2009

  • bilby
    I love to steal awhile away
    From every cumbering care,
    And spend the hours of setting day
    In humble, grateful prayer.

    - Phebe (Hinsdale) Brown, 'Private Devotion'. Sep 15, 2009

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