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discumber

discumber verb: to disencumber.

Verb

discumber (third-person singular simple present discumbers, present participle discumbering, simple past and past participle discumbered)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To disencumber.
    • a single beam the chief bestrides / There, pois'd awhile, above the bounding tides / His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

Forms of discumber

third-person singular presentdiscumbers
present participlediscumbering
past participlediscumbered
pastdiscumbered

Origin of discumber

From dis- + cumber: compare Old French descombrer.

Questions about discumber

What does discumber mean?
Discumber means to disencumber.
What part of speech is discumber?
Discumber is a verb.
What is the past tense of discumber?
The past tense of discumber is discumbered.

Words near discumber in the dictionary

  1. disculpatory
  2. disculped
  3. disculping
  4. disculps
  5. discumbency
  6. discumber
  7. discumbered
  8. discumbering
  9. discumbers
  10. discure
  11. discured

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