cumbered
adjEtymology From cumber + -ed.
1
Archaic Encumbered; hampered.
- 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.1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Cross Currents”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 94:
- Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster.1964, “Allah Made Mesopotamia—and Added Flies”, in The Great War:
- Derived terms
- uncumbered