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incommode

verb
/ˌɪnkəˈməʊd/UK/ˌɪnkəˈmoʊd/US

Etymology

Learned borrowing from French incommoder (“to bother, disconcert, incommode”), from Latin incommodāre, the present active infinitive of incommodō (“to inconvenience”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commodō (“to accommodate, adapt; to bestow, provide; to hire, lend”) (from com- (a variant of con- (prefix indicating completeness or intensification)) + modō (the ablative or singular of modus (“manner, method, way; bound, limit; measure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”))). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commode (“(archaic or obsolete) to provide (someone or something) with an appropriate, suitable, or necessary thing; to meet the requirements of (someone or something), suit; to repair (something)”).

  1. derived from *med-✻ — “to measure”
  2. derived from incommodāre
  3. learned borrowing from incommoder — “to bother, disconcert, incommode”

Definitions

  1. To make (someone) uncomfortable

    To make (someone) uncomfortable; to discomfort, to disturb, to trouble.

    • [T]heir Minds are ſo tender and effeminate, that they cannot bear the leaſt Air of Trouble vvithout Diſturbance; and vvhat vvould be a Diverſion to a couragious Soul, grieveth and incommodeth them.
    • You can't agree as to any time, Mrs. Moore, vvhen vve can have this third room, can you?—Not that (vvhiſper'd I, loud enough to be heard in the next room; Not that) I vvould incommode the lady: But I vvould tell my vvife vvhenabouts— […]

  2. To cause (someone or something) inconvenience

    To cause (someone or something) inconvenience; to hinder, to impede, to inconvenience, to obstruct.

  3. Synonym of incommodious.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Something which causes inconvenience or trouble

      Something which causes inconvenience or trouble; a bother, an incommodity, an inconvenience.

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