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- verb Present participle of
cumber .
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Examples
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But when I'm only just "cumbering," I feel less a fraud than when I'm pretending to do good. '
The Convert 1907
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"cumbering," I feel less a fraud than when I'm pretending to do good. '
The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907
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Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.
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Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.
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George, who was proceeding to tidy back the rubbish which was cumbering the place, discovered something which caused him to cry out to us his astonishment.
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That many who sought to do some little to repair the social wrongs, inflicted in the way of preventible sickness and death upon the poor, were strengthening those wrongs, however innocently, by wasting money on pestilent knaves cumbering society.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.
Think Progress » Iraq is “quickly becoming the largest” refugee crisis 2006
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She was striving to think how “rich she was in horses, how rich in broidered garments, and in gold,” as she sat solitary over her breakfast; but her mind would run off to other things, cumbering itself with unnecessary miseries and useless indignation.
The Claverings 2005
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He dashed off a telegram to Howells advising that “I love to steal a while away from every cumbering care / and while returns come in today lift up my voice & swear.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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He dashed off a telegram to Howells advising that “I love to steal a while away from every cumbering care / and while returns come in today lift up my voice & swear.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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