Definitions
restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
Word origin
From Middle English combren, aphetic form of acombren or encombren, borrowed from Old French encombrer, ultimately either from Latin cumulus or Proto-Celtic *kombereti (“to bring together”), from *kom- + *bereti (“to bear”). Cognate with German kümmern (“to take care of”).
Used in a sentence
“Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?”
“The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, […] but cumbers the memory.”
“[…] 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.”
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