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cumber 音标拼音: [k'ʌmbɚ] vt. 妨害,阻碍,使受苦
n. 妨害,烦累 妨害,阻碍,使受苦妨害,烦累 cumber v 1: hold back [ synonym: { restrain}, { encumber}, { cumber}, { constrain}] Cumber \ Cum" ber\ ( k? m" b? r), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Cumbered} (- b? rd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Cumbering}.] [ OE. combren, cumbren, OF. combrer to hinder, from LL. cumbrus a heap, fr. L. cumulus; cf. Skr. ?? to increase, grow strong. Cf. { Cumulate}.] To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. [ 1913 Webster] Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would but cumber and retard his flight? -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Martha was cumbered about much serving. -- Luke x. 40. [ 1913 Webster] Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? -- Luke xiii. 7. [ 1913 Webster] The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster]
Cumber \ Cum" ber\ ( k? m" b? r), n. [ Cf. encombre hindrance, impediment. See Cuber, v.] Trouble; embarrassment; distress. [ Obs.] [ Written also { comber}.] [ 1913 Webster] A place of much distraction and cumber. -- Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster] Sage counsel in cumber. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] Cumberland
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