(v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.
(v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only did he survive the point-blank attack, which killed his cameraman and close friend Simon Cumbers, but a year later he returned to work as the BBC's security correspondent.
(2) Dr Peter Dwyer, Ruskin College Oxford; Alexander Anievas, University of Cambridge; Dr Vaughan Ellis, Edinburgh Napier University; and Dr Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow, have also put their name to the letter.
(3) On to Hamilton now and this is incredibly awkward, Cumbers doesn't know what to say and he's waffling.
Umber
Definition:
(n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.
(n.) An umbrere.
(n.) See Grayling, 1.
(n.) An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.
(a.) Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.
(v. t.) To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.
Example Sentences:
(1) A statement from the Leeds chairman, Andrew Umbers, said Cellino was optimistic as to the outcome of a Rule K hearing.
(2) A banned person is required not to wield director-level authority at a club, and Leeds, where Andrew Umbers has taken over as chairman, maintain Cellino will not direct any matters during his ban.
(3) Their director, Andrew Umbers, said: "We are delighted to have been involved in this transaction.
(4) After a due process, I have also sold – with a clear harm to my interests – a minority stake in the club, so that in no way I could be prevented from freely acting as an independent citizen and individual before any authority.” A separate statement from Umbers read: “Massimo Cellino is taking this independent action so that LUFC is seen to be fully compliant with the Football League Rules and thus help the club avoid any sanctions.
(5) The week one tan shade is somewhere between Tuscan Sunset and Burnt Umber on my Dulux paint chart.
(6) In the golden afternoon light, the gorge looks a little like part of the Grand Canyon, with layered sedimentary rocks in varying tones of rusty brown and umber.
(7) The opportunity as the umber of detections increases is for amateur astronomers – our citizen scientists – to help here,” he said.
(8) By means of microsurgical technique and under the control of the ophthalmoscope 300 mul of isotone solution of NaCl with 22Na or o-131J-iodo-hippuric acid were injected into the space between the retina and pigment epithelium of 28 narcotized tomcats after having closed the inferior retina vessels by photocoagulation about 1 hr before in an umber of the animals.
(9) Mantle, who is over 1.95 metres (6ft 5in) tall, played Greatjon Umber, a Northern lord, in the first series of Game of Thrones.
(10) Sienna, chocolate, saddle brown, umber (burnt or raw), and mahogany work best with decent-to-good hair and even-to-keen features.
(11) We’re in constant discussions with the Football League and our own board and senior management team, we’re not sure.” Tim Kerr, the independent QC who chaired the professional conduct committee, dismissed the legal arguments made by Cellino’s lawyers, and one from the club director Andrew Umbers that claimed there was “a real likelihood of insolvency” should Cellino be disqualified.