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Impede vs Cumber - What's the difference?

impede | cumber |

As verbs the difference between impede and cumber

is that impede is to get in the way of; to hinder while cumber is (dated) to slow down, to hinder, to burden.

impede

English

Verb

(imped)
  • to get in the way of; to hinder

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * assist, help * expede (obsolete) * expedite

    Related terms

    * expede, expedite * impediment

    cumber

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cumbre (archaic)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To slow down, to hinder, to burden.
  • * Dryden
    • Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
  • * John Locke
    • The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, but cumbers the memory.
  • * 1886 , Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel . Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:
    • the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.

    Synonyms

    * encumber

    See also

    *

    Related terms

    * cumbersome * cumbrous * encumbrance * cumberground

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