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cumbered

adj

Etymology

From cumber + -ed.

  1. derived from *kombereti✻
  2. derived from cumulus
  3. derived from encombrer
  4. inherited from combren
  5. suffixed as cumbered — “cumber + ed”

Definitions

  1. Encumbered

    Encumbered; hampered.

    • Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered with a sense of honour.
    • Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster.

  2. simple past and past participle of cumber

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA