cumber

cumber englannista suomeksi

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cumber englanniksi

1. To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.

2. {{RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses

3. (RQ:Locke Conduct) but cumbers the memory.

4. (RQ:Scott Tales of the Crusaders)

5. 1886, Sir Walter Scott, ''The Fortunes of Nigel''. Pub.: Adams & Charles Black, Edinburgh; page 321:

(..) the base villain who murdered this poor defenceless old man, when he had not, by the course of nature, a twelvemonth's life in him, shall not cumber the earth long after him.

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8. (RQ:Lindsay Age of Consent)

9. Trouble, distress.

10. (quote-text)|title=The Lady of the Lake|section=3.XVI

11. Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden.

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