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View synonyms for cumbrance
cumbrance
[ kuhm-bruhns ]
noun
- trouble; bother.
- burden; encumbrance.
cumbrance
/ ˈkʌmbrəns /
noun
- a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- trouble or bother
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cumbrance1
1275–1325; Middle English combraunce, aphetic variant of acombraunce defeat, harassment; encumbrance
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Example Sentences
So I parted with my public and my ferrets—for she was dead a' ready, my wife was, and I hadn't no cumbrance.
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How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
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Our chance may come another time, and we want not the cumbrance of children on our march.
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