Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cumber . - adjective
Hampered ;encumbered .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word cumbered.
Examples
-
Compare Lu 10: 39, Mary; Lu 2: 37, "Anna ... a widow, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day" (1Ti 5: 5). distraction -- the same Greek as "cumbered" (Lu 10: 40, Martha).
-
Even in her early youth, what essential aid may an affectionate daughter render to a mother, "cumbered," perhaps, and overburthened with the cares of her household.
-
He cumbered our life with his presence, and ours was a rough life that made rough men of us.
-
The skilled and steady employments are not cumbered with clowns and idiots.
THE TRAMP 2010
-
Perhaps that is why I hated him, for truly he had become an offense to my eyes, and I believed the earth to be cumbered with his presence.
MOON-FACE 2010
-
He cumbered our life with his presence, and ours was a rough life that made rough men of us.
-
I think efficiency in many ways is cumbered and inhibited by meaning.
-
The middle distance was cumbered with bodies, but the rest surged on, breaking against and over the barricade like an ocean wave.
-
But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
The Better Part 2008
-
But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.