c 3 u 1 m 3 b 3 e 1 r 1
6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb hold back
originFrom Middle English komber, kumbre, cumbre, combre (“distress; destruction”). Used in 14th century Middle English in the very scarcely attested “destruction” sense but not in common use until the 16th century; at first chiefly Scots, where it is also spelled cummer. Further etymology is uncertain, the term is either: * an aphetic form of encomber, encumbir, encumbre (“trouble; misfortune; harm,…
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