Cumber

Definition: Cumber

Cumber

Verb

1. Hold back.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cumber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Cumber

Gravity

Verb: be heavy. Adjective: gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.

Hindrance

Cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.

Crosswords: Cumber

Books

• An edition of Anthony Munday's John a Kent and John a Cumber (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Albanian

rëndoj (aggravate, burden, complicate, encumber, exacerbate, load, weigh, weigh down, weigh on), pengoj (arrest, baffle, balk, baulk, block, clog, cross, delay, detain, embarrass, encumber, estop, foil, forbid, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hedge in, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, interfere, interfere with, interrupt, jam, keep away from, let, obstruct, occlude, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, resist, set back, shut in, stumble, trammel, traverse, trouble), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), ngarkoj (attribute, burden, charge, commission, delegate, encumber, entrain, entruck, freight, impose, impute, Lade, load, saddle, ship, weight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أثقل (burden, charge, clog, encumber, lie, overburden, soak, surcharge, weigh down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обременявам (burden, encumber, hamper, load, lumber, overburden, saddle, weigh down, weight, weight down), затруднение (ado, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hang up, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble). (various references)

Czech

bránit (defend, hinder, impede, keep, obstruct, stymie, trammel). (various references)

French

être lourd. (various references)

Greek 

κωλύω (bar, block, clog, preclude, stymie), βαραίνω, εμποδίζω (bar, block, clog, cross, deter, embarrass, encumber, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent, stunt, stymie, thwart, trammel, trig), επιβαρύνω (burden, charge, encumber, tax). (various references)

Hungarian

akadályoz (antagonize, bar, baulk, counterwork, encumber, hamper, hold, impede, interfere, obstruct, prevent, to clog, to clog up, to cramp, to detain, to discourage, to embarrass, to encumber, to hamper, to hold up, to impede, to incapacitate, to inhibit, to keep from, to put back, to put off, to set back, to thwart, to tie, to traverse, trammel), akadály (balk, bar, barrier, blockage, check, difficulty, drag, drawback, handicap, hang fire, hindrance, hitch, hobble, hurdle, impediment, leap, let, lion in the path, lion in the way, malfunction, objection, obstacle, obstruction, retardation, ring fence, snag, stumbling block, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, throw back, trammel, traverse). (various references)

Italian

ingombrare (choke, clutter, encumber, stuff, throng), impacciare (clog, cramp, encumber, hamper, hinder). (various references)

Manx

cur errey er (charge burden, encumber). (various references)

Pig Latin

umbercay

Portuguese

oprimir (bow, bully, burden, hold down, load, oppress, overbear, overlay, overtax, overwhelm, pinch, press, weight, whelm, yoke), obstrução (barricade, clog, obstacle, occlusion, patency, stonewalling, tie-up), impedir (arrest, avert, balk, block, clash, clog, cramp, dam, debar, delay, detain, embarrass, estop, fetter, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hinder, hobble, impede, intercept, interfere, let, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, put a stop, resist, restrain, set back, shackle, stop, thwart, trammel, withhold), impecílio, embaraçar (abash, astonish, astound, blur, clog, derange, detain, dim, disconcert, embarrass, embroil, encumber, entangle, puzzle, quiz, straiten, trammel). (various references)

Romanian

stânjeni (disturb, embarrass, encumber, hamper, hinder, impede, inconvenience, intrude upon, trouble), piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), obstacol (bar, barrier, check, clog, delay, dike, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hold back, hurdle, impediment, interference, jog, leap, marplot, object, obstacle, obstruction, rub, snag, stay), greutate (arduousness, authority, avoirdupois, bother, burden, charge, difficulty, embarrassment, encumbrance, hardness, hardship, heaviness, heft, load, poise, ponderosity, shot, trouble, weight), îngreuna (burden, load, press), încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, foul, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, involve, jumble, maze, medley, muddle, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, restrain, shuffle, sputter, stump, tangle, trouble), împovãra (burden, encumber, glut, oppress, overload, pack, pile, weigh down, weight). (various references)

Russian 

затруднять (discommode, embarrass, encumber, hamper, obstruct, trouble). (various references)

Scottish

cumraich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapreka (impediment, obstacle), teškoća (ado, difficulty, kink, rub), smetnja (disturbance, drawback, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, jam up, nuisance, perturbation, set back, setback), preprečiti (get in the way, obstruct, thwart). (various references)

Spanish

obstáculo (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, blockage, cave, cramps, drag, handicap, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, let, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, preventer, pullback, trouble, vapor barrier), hacer obstáculos (hindrance). (various references)

Swedish

hindra (balk, bar, baulk, clog, constrain, contain, cramp, cross, curb, detain, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hamstring, hedge, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, keep back, obstruct, occlude, preclude, prevent, put back, short circuit, snag, stay, stymie, trammel, traverse), hinder (balk, bar, block, check, curb, disqualification, drag, embargo, embarrassment, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, gorge, hazard, hedge, hindrance, hitch, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, object, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, stymie, trammel), börda (burden, imposition, liability, load, loading, onus, tax, weight). (various references)

Turkish

yük olmak (be a charge on smb., bear hard on, impose, load, tax, weigh, weigh on, weigh upon), sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), engellemek (balk, bar, baulk, block, circumvent, clamp the lid on smth., clog, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, cross, dam, dam up, defeat, embarrass, encumber, fetter, foil, gum up, hamper, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, keep down, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent from, put the lid on smth., resist, restrain, save, shut out, snag, stem, stymie, surety, trammel). (various references)

Ukrainian

утрудняти (embarrass, encumber), утруднення (ado, crux, discomfort, embarrassment, obstruction, perplexity, pressure, puzzle, trouble), скрута (adversity, flounder), обтяжувати (burden, charge, clog, load, overweight, task, weigh down, weight), перешкоджати (baffle, balk, bar, barrier in, baulk, block, check, clog, counteract, debar, discourage, forbid, handicap, impede, inhibit, militate, prevent, set back, tie up, trammel), перешкода (back-set, baffle, balk, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bridle, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, cramp, dike, disability, discouragement, drawback, dyke, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hold back, interference, leap, marplot, nuisance, obex, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor, preclusion, pullback, stop, trammels, traverse, wall). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự l� m trở ngại vật để ngổn ngang choán chỗ. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cumber": cumberbund, cumberbunds, cumbered, cumberer, cumberers, cumbering, cumbers, cumbersome, cumbersomely, cumbersomeness, cumbersomenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "cumber": cucumber, disencumber, encumber, incumber. (additional references)

Words containing "cumber": cucumbers, disencumbered, disencumbering, disencumbers, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, incumbered, incumbering, incumbers, unencumbered. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cumber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cmbor, Comberg, Coumba, cuber, cumb, Cumbley, Cumbra, cumbre, cumerih, cumme, cummer, Cuniberti, Curber, Cymmer, Gumburd, humber, Khumba, Kulbir, Kumba, Ochumba, Scumbergh, submer, sumber, ucjba. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: brume, crumb, cuber, umber.

-2 letters: berm, cube, curb, cure, ecru, mure, rube.

-3 letters: bum, bur, cub, cue, cum, cur, ecu, emu, reb, rec, rem, rub, rue, rum, urb.

-4 letters: be, em, er, me, mu, re, um.

+1 letter: clumber, crumbed, crumber, crumble, cumbers.

+2 letters: cerebrum, cherubim, clumbers, crumbers, crumbier, crumbled, crumbles, cucumber, cumbered, cumberer, encumber, incumber.

+3 letters: bacterium, buckramed, cerebrums, cherubims, crumbiest, crumblier, cucumbers, cumberers, cumbering, encumbers, incumbers, recumbent.

+4 letters: ambuscader, breadcrumb, cerebellum, crumbliest, cumberbund, cumbersome, cummerbund, embouchure, encumbered, incumbered, lumberjack, microbuses, procumbent, recumbency, scrubwomen, thumbscrew, unscramble.

+5 letters: ambuscaders, bimolecular, breadcrumbs, candelabrum, cerebellums, crumbliness, cumberbunds, cummerbunds, currycombed, disencumber, embouchures, encumbering, encumbrance, incumbering, lumberjacks, microbusses, microtubule, submergence, thumbscrews, thumbsucker, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles.