亚洲网紅露点

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cumber

[ kuhm-ber ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to hinder; hamper.
  2. to overload; burden.
  3. to inconvenience; trouble.


noun

  1. a hindrance.
  2. something that cumbers.
  3. Archaic. embarrassment; trouble.

cumber

/ 藞办蕦尘产蓹 /

verb

  1. to obstruct or hinder
  2. obsolete.
    to inconvenience
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a hindrance or burden
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞肠耻尘产别谤别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠耻尘顎僢别谤路别谤 noun
  • 肠耻尘顎僢别谤路尘别苍迟 noun
  • 辞顎卾别谤路肠耻尘顎僢别谤 verb (used with object)
  • 耻苍路肠耻尘顎僢别谤别诲 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of cumber1

1250鈥1300; Middle English cumbre (noun), cumbren (v.), aphetic variant of acumbren to harass, defeat; encumber
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of cumber1

C13: probably from Old French combrer to impede, prevent, from combre barrier; see encumber
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Theodore Roosevelt had already warned what would befall an Indian who refused his allotment: 鈥淟et him, like these whites, who will not work, perish from the face of the earth which he cumbers.鈥

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Adam objected, 鈥渁nd art cumbered with crutches as well. And how wilt thou cross the river? The bridge is well guarded at both ends.鈥

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It made him feel cumbered and foolish, and he wondered once more why he was here.

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Within these modest limits we have brought the greater part of that monstrous host of crosses which cumber the dictionaries.

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In every day of his life he was occupied with many things, but he was never cumbered.

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颁耻尘补苍谩Cumberland