Definitions for cumber

cumber cum·ber

Spelling: [kuhm-ber]
IPA: /ˈkʌm bər/

Cumber is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in cumber (bcemru).

Definitions for cumber

noun

  1. a hindrance.
  2. something that cumbers.
  3. Archaic. embarrassment; trouble.

verb (used with object)

  1. to hinder; hamper.
  2. to overload; burden.
  3. to inconvenience; trouble.

Origin of cumber

1250-1300; Middle English cumbre (noun), cumbren (v.), aphetic variant of acumbren to harass, defeat; see encumber

Examples for cumber

You don't imagine of what service Lord cumber and I could be of to you.

How much longer is that Joseph to be allowed to cumber London?

God had, at any rate, decreed that this man should not cumber it as a drone.

God had at any rate decreed that this man should not cumber it as a drone.

I have not wished to cumber my pages with constant quotations.

We cannot spare the time to take them now, or cumber ourselves with them when taken.

Two men abreast could not beset him, since one must cumber the movements of the other.

You do but cumber yourselves to hear tales and fables against him.

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious?

Money was given him, but not in such abundance as to cumber his march.

Word Value for cumber
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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