incommode
Verb
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Verb
incommode (incommodes, present participle incommoding; past and past participle incommoded)
- To disturb, to discomfort, to hinder.
- 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, Volume I, “The Dwarf,” p. 193,
- The dwarf suffered inexpressibly on all sides; but the thing which incommoded him most, was a tall corpulent German, near seven feet high, who stood directly betwixt him and all possibility of his seeing either the stage or the actors.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 5,
- No sooner was her answer dispatched, than Mrs. Dashwood indulged herself in the pleasure of announcing to her son-in-law and his wife that she was provided with a house, and should incommode them no longer than till every thing were ready for her inhabiting it.
- 1883, R.M. Ballantyne, "The Middy and the Moors", London: Nisbet & Co., Chapter 1, p. 11,
- Youth, strength, and health are not easily incommoded by wet garments!
- 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, Volume I, “The Dwarf,” p. 193,
- Portuguese: incomodar
- Russian: затрудня́ть
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