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De - Pt| English Dictionary: cumbering | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Cumber \Cum"ber\ (k?m"b?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cumbered} (-b?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cumbering}.] [OE. combren, cumbren,OF. combrer to hinder, from LL. cumbrus a heap, fr. L. cumulus; cf. Skr. [?][?] to increase, grow strong. Cf. {Cumulate}.] 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. | |
