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CUMBER
restrain, encumber, cumber
(verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
cumber (third-person singular simple present cumbers, present participle cumbering, simple past and past participle cumbered)
(transitive, dated) To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
Synonyms
• encumber
Anagrams
• cumbre, recumb
Source: Wiktionary
Cum"ber (km"br), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cumbered (-brd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cumbering.] Etym: [OE. combren, cumbren,OF. combrer to hinder, from LL. cumbrus a heap, fr. L. cumulus; cf. Skr. to increase, grow strong. Cf. Cumulate.]
Definition: 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 (km"br), n. Etym: [Cf. encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber,v.]
Definition: Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [Obs.] [Written also comber.] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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