cumbered
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of cumber
Example Sentences
- "Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered with a sense of honour."
- "Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster."
Etymology
Etymology tree English cumber Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English cumbered From cumber + -ed.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more cumbered (comparative)
most cumbered (superlative)