Definitions for cumbers

cumbers cum·ber

Spelling: [kuhm-ber]
IPA: /ˈkʌm bər/

Cumbers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in cumbers (bcemrsu).

Definitions for cumbers

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 cumbers

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

Examples for cumbers

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for cumbers
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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