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cumbered

cumbered adjective: encumbered; hampered. Also the simple past and past participle of cumber.

Adjective

cumbered (comparative more cumbered, superlative most cumbered)

  1. (archaic) Encumbered; hampered.
    • 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.1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Cross Currents”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 94
    • Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster.1964, “Allah Made Mesopotamia—and Added Flies”, in The Great War

Also used as

cumbered is also the simple past and past participle of cumber.

Forms of cumbered

comparativemore cumbered
superlativemost cumbered

Origin of cumbered

From cumber + -ed.

Words formed from cumbered

Questions about cumbered

What does cumbered mean?
Cumbered means encumbered; hampered.
What part of speech is cumbered?
Cumbered is an adjective.

Words near cumbered in the dictionary

  1. Cumberbatchian
  2. Cumberbitch
  3. Cumberbitches
  4. cumberbund
  5. cumberbunds
  6. cumbered
  7. cumberer
  8. cumberers
  9. Cumberfan
  10. Cumberfans
  11. cumberground

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