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单词 accumber
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accumberv.

Brit. /əˈkʌmbə/, U.S. /əˈkəmbər/
Forms: Middle English acombir, Middle English acombre, Middle English acombry (south-eastern), Middle English acommor, Middle English acumbir, Middle English acumbre, Middle English acumbri (south-eastern), Middle English acvmbre, Middle English–1500s acomber, Middle English–1500s acomer, Middle English–1500s acumber, Middle English–1600s accombre, 1500s accomber, 1500s accoumbre, 1500s–1600s accumbre, 1500s–1600s 1900s– accumber.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French acumbrer, encumbrer.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman acumbrer, Anglo-Norman and Old French acombrer (13th cent.), variant (see discussion at a- prefix1) of Anglo-Norman encumbrer, Anglo-Norman and Old French encombrer encumber v. Compare cumber v. and later encumber v.On the spellings in acc- compare discussion at ac- prefix.
Now rare.
transitive. To encumber, overwhelm, oppress.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber
accumberc1275
encumberc1386
accloy1422
overlay1441
cumber1493
poister1523
pester1533
overgrowa1550
clog1564
cloy1564
aggravate1573
trasha1616
hamper1775
mither1847
lumber1861
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or overwhelm > specifically of things
to come over ——OE
accumberc1275
encumber1377
drown1398
overbear1535
to usurp on or upon1594
overact1649
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or overwhelm > completely or overthrow
shrenchc897
allayOE
fellOE
quellOE
to bring to the groundc1175
forlesec1200
to lay downa1225
acastc1225
accumberc1275
cumber1303
confoundc1330
overthrowc1375
cumrayc1425
overquell?c1450
overwhelvec1450
to nip in (also by, on) the head (also neck, pate)?a1500
prostrate1531
quash1556
couch1577
unhorse1577
prosternate1593
overbeata1616
unchariot1715
floor1828
quench1841
to knock over1853
fling1889
to throw down1890
steamroller1912
wipe1972
zonk1973
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to obstruction
cumberc1394
encumberc1400
cloy1548
pester1548
accumberc1571
clog1586
to take up1587
lumber1642
over-clog1660
crowd1741
jama1865
c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 220 (MED) Yef se deuel us wille a cumbri þurch senne.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 3422 (MED) Mete we hem þer on þe doune, Acumbre [Caius accombre] hem & legge hem doune.
c1330 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Auch.) (1952) l. 409 When þat heued is yfalle Acombred beþ þe menbres alle.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ii. l. 50 (MED) I bikenne þe criste..And lat no conscience acombre þe for coueitise of Mede.
a1464 J. Capgrave Chron. Eng. (Cambr.) 122 He was so acomered with the Danes that he..acorded with them to pay hem ȝerly x thousand pound.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. l. 28 (MED) For þey acombrede þe contre and many curse seruid.
1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. 416 She was sore accombred with that open shame.
1544 T. Phaer Of Pestilence ii. ii Oftentimes accoumbred with manye naughtye sycknesses.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 53 Vnlesse we listed to accomber our selues in thinges trifling and vnprofitable.
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. ix. 34 Unhable any longer to dwell in their shippes, accombred with cariage of women and children.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 87 We would not bee accumbred with the variety of names which are vsually giuen to this substance.
1679 T. Oates Witch of Endor 29 The soul is many times accombred through the abuse of flesh, superfluity, banqueting, surfeting and rioting.
1907 G. P. Baker Devel. Shakespeare as Dramatist v. 193 Shakespeare stood, as it were, amidst his material, accumbered by it, sure neither of its dramatic values nor of the methods by which to give his material full dramatic effect.

Derivatives

accumbered adj. Obsolete
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a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) xcviii. 51 As doth th' accomberd sprite thowghtfull throws discover Off fiers delyght, off fervent love, that in our hertes we cover.
1562 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms (1619) cxliii. 4 Within me in perplexitie Was mine accombred sprite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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