cumber means to slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 80 out of 100.
cumber is pronounced /ˈkʌmbə/.
Etymology
From Middle English combren, aphetic form of acombren or encombren, borrowed from Old French encombrer, ultimately either from Latin cumulus or Proto-Celtic *kombereti (“to bring together”), from *kom- + *bereti (“to bear”). Cognate with German kümmern (“to take care of”).
verb
- To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.“Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?”
noun
- Trouble, distress.“Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, / Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber!”
- Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden.