Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to be inconvenienced; disturb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To subject to inconvenience or trouble; disturb or molest; worry; put out: as, visits of strangers at unseasonable hours incommode a family.
- Synonyms To discommode, annoy, try.
- Troublesome; inconvenient.
- noun Something troublesome or inconvenient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare An inconvenience.
- transitive verb To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
disturb , todiscomfort , tohinder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Speculation centers on the Second Congressional District, which could incommode our personal traffic.
Seeking small things jhetley 2008
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Of course, this does not incommode me as much as losing sight or hearing would; but it is no very pleasant thing for all that, and I'm curious as to why it has so low a profile in the world as a whole as to be, effectively, nameless why should anosmia be anomic?
Archive 2007-07-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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Of course, this does not incommode me as much as losing sight or hearing would; but it is no very pleasant thing for all that, and I'm curious as to why it has so low a profile in the world as a whole as to be, effectively, nameless why should anosmia be anomic?
Functionally anosmic Adam Roberts Project 2007
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Say nothing at all about my visit, if it will incommode you so to do.
A Changed Man 2006
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With the fall of night had come a mist just damp enough to incommode, but not sufficient to saturate them.
Wessex Tales 2006
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But the dress-coat will some day be too tight for him and incommode him.
On Human Nature 2004
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‘Shall I incommode you, if I put mine up too?’ returned
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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“I am so sorry that my poor little fellow should incommode you,” said Miss Palliser.
Phineas Redux 2004
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I have been invited, or have invited myself, to several parts of the kingdom; and will not incommode my dear
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Tell me the hours when you do not receive the fair sex, and when sexagenarian troubadours do not incommode you.
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