cumber
verb (used with object)
to hinder; hamper.
cumberer
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a word derived from
cumber.
Example Sentences
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Thus he was to be all his life long this big cumberer of the ground.
From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Granted I was wild and a useless cumberer of civilization; I was only what my environments had made me.
From The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower
To-morrow you'll be a nameless cumberer of busy streets, useful only to the street-car companies to shake down for nickels.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
No doubt I appear to you a mere cumberer of the ground; but it is my ground, I would have you remember.
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
College, profession, hopes, ambitions—gone forever—nothing left but to lie here—for the rest of my life—a useless hulk—a cumberer of the ground.
From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton
