Why asks he what avails him not in fight, / And would but cumber and retard his flight?
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Cumber
Synonyms for "cumber" (69 found)
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Bulgarian
2 entries- затруднявам verb (to slow down, to hinder, to burden)
- обременявам verb (to slow down, to hinder, to burden)
Czech
4 entries- blokovat verb (to slow down, to hinder, to burden)
- brzdit verb (to slow down, to hinder, to burden)
- bránit verb (to slow down, to hinder, to burden)
- zablokovat verb (to slow down, to hinder, to burden)
French
1 entries- encombrer verb (to slow down, to hinder, to burden)
Sample sentences
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The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, […] but cumbers the memory.
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Wounded and overthrown, the Britons continued their resistance, clung round the legs of the Norman steeds, and cumbered their advance; while their brethren, thrusting with pikes, proved every joint and crevice of the plate and mail, or grappling with the men-at-arms, strove to pull them from their horses by main force, or beat them down with their bills and Welch hooks.
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[…] 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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