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English
Etymology
From cumber + -ed.
Adjective
cumbered (comparative more cumbered, superlative most cumbered)
- (archaic) Encumbered; hampered.
1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Cross Currents”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. , →OCLC, page 94:Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered with a sense of honour.
1964, “Allah Made Mesopotamia—and Added Flies”, in The Great War:Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster.
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Verb
cumbered
- simple past and past participle of cumber
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