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As a verb cumber is

(dated) to slow down, to hinder, to burden.

wikidiffcom

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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

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