cumber

Plural: cumbers

Verb

Verb Forms: cumbered, cumbering, cumbers

To burden, hinder, or encumber with something troublesome.
hold back
To slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.

Noun

Trouble, distress.
Something that encumbers; a hindrance, a burden.
Clipping of cucumber.

Examples

His hand of all vowels did CUMBER him, making high scores impossible.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English combren, aphetic form of acombren or encombren, borrowed from Old French encombrer, ultimately either from Latin cumulus or Proto-Celtic *kombereti (“to bring together”), from *kom- + *bereti (“to bear”). Cognate with German kümmern (“to take care of”).

Synonyms

constrain, encumber, restrain, see also Thesaurus:hinder

Scrabble Score: 12

cumber: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cumber: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cumber: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

cumber: valid Words With Friends Word