Word.ws English Dictionary

uncumber

uncumber verb: to disencumber.

Verb

uncumber (third-person singular simple present uncumbers, present participle uncumbering, simple past and past participle uncumbered)

  1. (rare) To disencumber.
    • ... St. Wilgeforte (famous for praying for a beard to protect her virtue, and getting one as long as the Persian king's) obtained the name of St. Uncumber in England because, for a peck of oats, she would uncumber any woman who was tired of her husband;...1856, Robert Southey, John Wood Warter, Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, page 44
    • "But we call her Saint Uncumber," Mrs. Nicholson explained, "because, if you've got a bad husband, she uncumbers you."1966, Alison Macleod, The heretic: a novel, page 158

Examples of uncumber in a sentence

  • The subcommittee concludes FDA should become less involved in the early stages of clinical research by streamlining and uncumbering its regulations governing them.1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, The Food and...
  • It is our regard for the body that uncumbers us.1987, Christin Lore Weber, Womanchrist: A New Vision of Feminist Spirituality, page 35:

Forms of uncumber

third-person singular presentuncumbers
present participleuncumbering
past participleuncumbered
pastuncumbered

Origin of uncumber

From un- + cumber.

Questions about uncumber

What does uncumber mean?
Uncumber means to disencumber.
How do you use uncumber in a sentence?
The subcommittee concludes FDA should become less involved in the early stages of clinical research by streamlining and uncumbering its regulations governing them.
What part of speech is uncumber?
Uncumber is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncumber?
The past tense of uncumber is uncumbered.

Words near uncumber in the dictionary

  1. uncultural
  2. unculturality
  3. unculture
  4. uncultured
  5. unculturedness
  6. uncumber
  7. uncumbered
  8. uncumbering
  9. uncumbers
  10. uncumbersome
  11. uncumbrous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: uncumber (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: “uncumber.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/uncumber. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.