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cumbre

cumbre is the archaic form 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

Forms of cumbre

third-person singular presentcumbres
present participlecumbring
past participlecumbred
pastcumbred

Phrases with cumbre

Questions about cumbre

What is cumbre the archaic form of?
Cumbre is the archaic form of cumber.

Words near cumbre in the dictionary

  1. cumbrain
  2. cumbrained
  3. cumbrains
  4. cumbrance
  5. cumbrances
  6. cumbre
  7. Cumbre Vieja
  8. cumbred
  9. cumbrella
  10. cumbrellas
  11. Cumbria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cumbre (page history and authors); cumber (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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