Word.ws English Dictionary

discumbers

discumbers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of discumber.

Meaning of discumber

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

Questions about discumbers

What is discumbers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Discumbers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of discumber.

Words near discumbers in the dictionary

  1. disculps
  2. discumbency
  3. discumber
  4. discumbered
  5. discumbering
  6. discumbers
  7. discure
  8. discured
  9. discures
  10. discuring
  11. discurrent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: discumbers (page history and authors); discumber (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “discumbers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/discumbers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.