incommode
Americanverb (used with object)
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to inconvenience or discomfort; disturb; trouble.
- Synonyms:
- discommode
- Antonyms:
- help
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to impede; hinder.
- Antonyms:
- expedite
verb
Etymology
Origin of incommode
First recorded in 1510–20; from Latin incommodāre, from incommodus “inconvenient”; equivalent to in- 3 + commode
Example Sentences
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I submitted that no thought could be further from Dr. Trefusis’s intent than to incommode such an excellent hostess.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Nor is it necessary for the hostess to incommode herself by rising, during the course of the dinner, to greet a late-comer and make him known to the other guests.
From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Lillian Eichler
Meanwhile, I will leave you, for you may have a thousand messages to give monsieur for your relations and friends, commissions to intrust to him, and I should be very sorry to incommode you.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
Jacob and Ivas were going to leave, fearing to incommode them, when Lucie looked up and saw Ivas.
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
To execute this Project they posted themselves behind the Scheld, from whence they indeed did very much incommode us.
“He can, indeed, on a rainy day, devour half a dozen volumes of summer reading, and be no more incommoded than when he swallows as many jellies and puffs at the fashionable confectioners.”
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2020
But his genius once awakened, his faults were shaken off as a garment that would have incommoded the flight of his imagination .
From Time Magazine Archive
“I wouldn’t have incommoded none of you, if I’d had my way.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Actuated by a sudden resolve, he moved his shoulder to test how far it incommoded him.
From The Shadow of the Past by F.E. Mills Young
The parishioners in the latter church were sometimes incommoded by the vast concourse who came to hear this evangelical clergyman.
From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown
A police spokesperson said that Mr Cohen was charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding - a misdemeanour offence often used in civil disobedience cases in the US capital.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
Six people appeared before the District of Columbia Superior Court on Tuesday alone to face charges of crowding, obstructing or incommoding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
On Wednesday, the protesters pleaded guilty to crowding, obstructing or incommoding, court documents show, and received suspended sentences of 30 days in jail.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
Dozens of people were charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding, including 78 who were arrested in the Senate office buildings.
From Fox News ● Oct. 5, 2018
The ultimate apotheosis would appear to be that of a man sitting quite still, not daring to stir for fear of disturbing a fly, nor to eat for fear of incommoding a microbe.
From Orthodoxy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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