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English
Etymology
From dis- + cumber: compare Old French descombrer.
Verb
discumber (third-person singular simple present discumbers, present participle discumbering, simple past and past participle discumbered)
- (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. , London: Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:a single beam the chief bestrides / There, pois'd awhile, above the bounding tides / His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest
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