incommoding

Verb

incommode (third-person singular simple present incommodes, present participle incommoding, simple past and past participle incommoded)

1. (formal, transitive) To make (someone) uncomfortable; to discomfort, to disturb, to trouble.
   • [T]heir Minds are ſo tender and effeminate, that they cannot bear the leaſt Air of Trouble vvithout Diſturbance; and vvhat vvould be a Diverſion to a couragious Soul, grieveth and incommodeth them.1673 August 4 (Gregorian calendar), John Scott, “A Sermon Preached before the Honourable Military Company at St. Clements Danes, July 25, 1673. [Ephes[ians] 6. 11.]”, in Sermons upon Several...

   Synonyms:

   discommodate, discommode

2. (formal, transitive) To cause (someone or something) inconvenience; to hinder, to impede, to inconvenience, to obstruct.
   • With respect to the French Prisoners, it is the direction of the President that none be suffered to remain at Sᵗ Kitts at the expence of the U.S. a moment longer than can't be avoided – and that every public ship returning from thence to the U.S. be made to bring away as many Prisoners, as each can...1800 December 6, Benjamin Stoddert, “To Captain John Barry, U.S. Navy, from Secretary of the Navy”, in Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war between the United States and France: Naval Operations...

   Synonyms:

   behedge, blunt, crimp, foreclose, delay, difficult, diminish, forestay, retroact, interfere

   Antonyms:

   abet, aid, assist, befriend, bestead, minister, come to someone's aid, give someone a hand, grip, help

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