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cumbers

cumbers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cumber.

cumbers is the plural of cumber.

Meaning of cumber

Verb

cumber (third-person singular simple present cumbers, present participle cumbering, simple past and past participle cumbered)

  1. (dated, transitive) To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
    • Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    encumber

See all 3 meanings of cumber

Origin of cumbers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about cumbers

What is cumbers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cumbers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cumber.

Words near cumbers in the dictionary

  1. Cumbernauld
  2. Cumberpatch
  3. Cumberpatches
  4. Cumberpeople
  5. Cumberperson
  6. cumbers
  7. cumbersome
  8. cumbersomely
  9. cumbersomeness
  10. cumberworld
  11. cumberworlds

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