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Meaning of cumber | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈkʌmbə/

Definitions

  1. Trouble, distress.
    obsolete, uncountable
  2. Clipping of cucumber.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
  3. Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Čeština blokovat bránit brzdit
Français encombrer

Examples

“Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, / Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber!”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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