cumber

vt. 妨害, 阻碍, 使受苦 n. 妨害, 累赘

发音

UK /ˈkʌmbə/
其它

词形变化

cumbers 复数 cumbered cumbering cumbers 三单 cumbers cumbering 现在分词 cumbered 过去式 cumbered 过去分词

别名

'cumber cumbre

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Trouble, distress.

    废旧 不可数
  2. 2.

    Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden.

    不可数
  3. 1.

    Clipping of cucumber.

    非正式
v.
  1. 1.

    To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.

    过时 及物

    […] the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

restrain encumber

上位词 6

bound limit throttle confine restrict trammel

下位词 3

curb clog bridle

相关短语

cumber ground cumber grounds

词源

From Middle English komber, kumbre, cumbre, combre (“distress; destruction”). Used in 14th century Middle English in the very scarcely attested “destruction” sense but not in common use until the 16th century; at first chiefly Scots, where it is also spelled cummer. Further etymology is uncertain, the term is either: * an aphetic form of encomber, encumbir, encumbre (“trouble; misfortune; harm, ruin”), itself from Old French encombre (“a hindrance, difficulty”), see Etymology 1 and French encombrer for further etymology; or, * cognate with Middle High German kumber (German Kummer), Middle Low German kummer, and Dutch kommer with which it strikingly shares the meaning “trouble, distress”, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *kumbr (“burden, trouble, sorrow”); or, * a deverbal from cumber.

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