English

Verb

cumbered

1. simple past tense and past participle of cumber

Adjective

cumbered ‎(comparative more cumbered, superlative most cumbered)

1. (now rare) Hampered; encumbered.
   • 1910, Saki, ‘Cross Currents’, Reginald in Russia:

     Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered with a sense of honour.

   • 1964, ‘Allah made Mesopotamia—and added flies’, The Great War:

     Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster.