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What (who) is cumber - definition


cumber         
['k?mb?]
¦ verb dated hamper, hinder, or obstruct.
¦ noun archaic a hindrance, obstruction, or burden.
Origin
ME (in the sense 'overthrow, destroy'): prob. from encumber.
cumber         
v. a.
1.
Overload, oppress, clog, hamper, obstruct, encumber.
2.
Distract, trouble, embarrass, perplex, plague, harass, worry, torment.
Cumber         
·v Trouble; embarrassment; distress.
II. Cumber ·vt To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to Embarrass; to Trouble.
Examples of use of cumber
1. "We want (Cumber) to listen and learn," Ihsanoglu said.
2. U.S. envoy Cumber told Reuters he had been welcomed with open arms at the summit.
3. The old Toryism is one of the outworn beliefs that hang on to cumber a newborn earth.
4. U.S. envoy Cumber said he had held bilateral talks with a number of Muslim leaders at the summit, though not with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
5. "The Islamic Ummah (community) is moving in a moderate direction and almost on a progressive path, we‘re all moving in the same path," said Sada Cumber, who was appointed by President George W.