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单词 discumber
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discumberv.

Brit. /dɪˈskʌmbə/, U.S. /dᵻˈskəmbər/
Forms: see dis- prefix and cumber v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: dis- prefix, cumber v.
Etymology: < dis- prefix + cumber v., after Middle French descombrer, decombrer (French décombrer) to remove an encumbrance or impediment (12th cent. in Old French).
1. transitive. To relieve of a burden, impediment, or encumbrance; to disencumber. Frequently with of, from. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > make easy or easier > disencumber or disburden
uncharge1303
ease1393
uncumberc1440
discumber?1473
exonerate1524
unlade?1529
dispatch1530
disburden1531
unburden1538
unloaden1567
free1573
disbalass1576
unload1576
disencumber1598
dispester1600
disempester1613
relieve1671
disemburden1790
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 225v Thou by bryght and shynyng labour hast discombred vs of derkenes [Fr. nous a descombrez de tenebres] and haste gyuen vs lyght of clerenes.
1584 T. Chaloner Shorte Disc. Nitre f. 16 To vnstoppe and discombre the Liuer, from the distentions, stuffinges and chokings of the conduites thereof.
1660 S. Clarke Lives Two & Twenty Eng. Divines 142 Having thus discumbred himself of worldly cares, he took care for the places he now possessed.
1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 176/1 The Body being discumbered, the sensual Appetite may be the more freely encouraged to gratifie it self in the delights of Nature.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 474 The Chief..His limbs dis-cumbers of the clinging vest.
1763 E. B. Greene Satires of Juvenal Imitated ii. 20 They..wish, discumber'd from his earthly clay, His soul unspotted shone as pure as they.
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 28 Jan. (1778) The surface is discumbered, and the digested dung worked thoroughly into the sod.
1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 17 Her young, Soon as discumbered of the fragile shell Run lively round their dam.
1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters vi. 149 Discumbering our minds of what we have crammed up for the occasion.
1987 Historia 36 93 They had discumbered themselves of Hermes Aerios and his keeper.
2. transitive. To remove (a hazard or encumbrance). Obsolete. N.E.D. (1896) marks this sense as erroneous, taking quot. 1775 to be a misreading.
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1775 T. Tyrwhitt Ess. Lang. Chaucer in Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. ⁋816 The vengeance of avoutrie is awarded to the peine of helle, but if so be that it be discombered [earlier MSS and edd. destourbed, disturberid, distorbled, destroubled] by penitence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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