Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To cause to be inconvenienced; disturb.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Troublesome; inconvenient.
  • noun Something troublesome or inconvenient.
  • To subject to inconvenience or trouble; disturb or molest; worry; put out: as, visits of strangers at unseasonable hours incommode a family.
  • Synonyms To discommode, annoy, try.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare An inconvenience.
  • transitive verb To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to disturb, to discomfort, to hinder.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French incommoder, from Old French, from Latin incommodāre, from incommodus, inconvenient : in-, not; see in– + commodus, convenient; see commodious.]

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Examples

  • Speculation centers on the Second Congressional District, which could incommode our personal traffic.

    Seeking small things jhetley 2008

  • Of course, this does not incommode me as much as losing sight or hearing would; but it is no very pleasant thing for all that, and I'm curious as to why it has so low a profile in the world as a whole as to be, effectively, nameless why should anosmia be anomic?

    Archive 2007-07-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Of course, this does not incommode me as much as losing sight or hearing would; but it is no very pleasant thing for all that, and I'm curious as to why it has so low a profile in the world as a whole as to be, effectively, nameless why should anosmia be anomic?

    Functionally anosmic Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Say nothing at all about my visit, if it will incommode you so to do.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • With the fall of night had come a mist just damp enough to incommode, but not sufficient to saturate them.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • But the dress-coat will some day be too tight for him and incommode him.

    On Human Nature 2004

  • ‘Shall I incommode you, if I put mine up too?’ returned

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • “I am so sorry that my poor little fellow should incommode you,” said Miss Palliser.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • I have been invited, or have invited myself, to several parts of the kingdom; and will not incommode my dear

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • Tell me the hours when you do not receive the fair sex, and when sexagenarian troubadours do not incommode you.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

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