Synonyms for cumber:
verb hamper
Examples of uses:
It's a hollowed out cumber, with french dressing already inside.
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It is comfortable enough for rough folk but we don't live in a cow-cumber frame.
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Domestic fury and fierce civil strife shall cumber all the parts of Italy.
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There is no specimen at present in the Museum, the one stuffed by Miss cumber having, as above mentioned, disappeared.
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Title: Birds of Guernsey (1879), author: Cecil Smith, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14473/14473-h/14473-h.htm
God had, at any rate, decreed that this man should not cumber it as a drone.
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Title: The Romany Rye, author: George Borrow, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25071/25071-h/25071-h.htm
My followers have fled, though I am glad to see some of the hare-livered dogs cumber the ground.
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Title: The Great Mogul, author: Louis Tracy, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34134/34134-h/34134-h.htm
I believe,' said she smiling, though she sighed too, 'that I am still to cumber the ground a little longer.
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Title: Discipline, author: Mary Brunton, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38510/38510-h/38510-h.htm
There is (p. 361) no picturesque decay in London; what is not of use must go: it dare not cumber the precious ground.
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Title: Highways and Byways in London, author: Mrs. E. T. Cook., url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39875/39875-h/39875-h.htm
To do so would be unscientific, and such speculations, though interesting, cumber science wofully.'
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Title: Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, author: Richard A. Proctor, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26556/26556-h/26556-h.htm
The next twenty years were occupied with the strife of Kirk and King, whence arose “all the cumber of Scotland” till 1689.
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Title: A Short History of Scotland, author: Andrew Lang, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15955/15955-h/15955-h.htm
