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discumber en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + cumber: compare Old French descombrer.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, transitive) To disencumber.
    • a single beam the chief bestrides / There, pois'd awhile, above the bounding tides / His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

Forms

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discumbered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
discumbered Tense=Past lexicographic
discumbers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
discumbering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic