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单词 cumbrance
释义

cumbrance

[ kuhm-bruhns ]
/ ˈkʌm brəns /
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noun

trouble; bother.
burden; encumbrance.

Origin of cumbrance

1275–1325; Middle English combraunce, aphetic variant of acombraunce defeat, harassment; see encumbrance

Words nearby cumbrance

Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland sauce, Cumbernauld, cumbersome, cumbia, cumbrance, Cumbria, Cumbrian, Cumbrian Mountains, cumbrous, cumbungi
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Example sentences from the Web for cumbrance

  • How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

    Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I|Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • So I parted with my public and my ferrets—for she was dead a' ready, my wife was, and I hadn't no cumbrance.

    Felix Holt, The Radical|George Eliot
  • Our chance may come another time, and we want not the cumbrance of children on our march.

    In the Wars of the Roses|Evelyn Everett-Green

British Dictionary definitions for cumbrance

cumbrance
/ (ˈkʌmbrəns) /

noun

a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
trouble or bother
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