INCOMMODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incommode mean? 

• INCOMMODE (verb)
  The verb INCOMMODE has 1 sense:

1. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

  Familiarity information: INCOMMODE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOMMODE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they incommode    ... he / she / it incommodes   
Past simple: incommoded   
Past participle: incommoded   
-ing form: incommoding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To cause inconvenience or discomfort to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bother; discommode; disoblige; incommode; inconvenience; put out; trouble

Context example:

Sorry to trouble you, but...

Hypernyms (to "incommode" is one way to...):

affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "incommode"):

distress; straiten (bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I do not believe, said Mrs. Dashwood, with a good humoured smile, that Mr. Willoughby will be incommoded by the attempts of either of MY daughters towards what you call CATCHING him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As she walked along, seemingly incommoded by the burden, a young man met her, whose countenance expressed a deeper despondence.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Not that she was incommoded by many fears of Sir Thomas's disapprobation when the present state of his house should be known, for her judgment had been so blinded that, except by the instinctive caution with which she had whisked away Mr. Rushworth's pink satin cloak as her brother-in-law entered, she could hardly be said to shew any sign of alarm; but she was vexed by the manner of his return.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Elton was to take the drawing to London, chuse the frame, and give the directions; and Emma thought she could so pack it as to ensure its safety without much incommoding him, while he seemed mostly fearful of not being incommoded enough.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

On the 23rd you incommoded me; by the middle of February I was seriously inconvenienced by you; at the end of March I was absolutely hampered in my plans; and now, at the close of April, I find myself placed in such a position through your continual persecution that I am in positive danger of losing my liberty. The situation is becoming an impossible one.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mary had shewn herself disobliging to him, and was now to reap the consequence, which consequence was his dropping her arm almost every moment to cut off the heads of some nettles in the hedge with his switch; and when Mary began to complain of it, and lament her being ill-used, according to custom, in being on the hedge side, while Anne was never incommoded on the other, he dropped the arms of both to hunt after a weasel which he had a momentary glance of, and they could hardly get him along at all.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Her plan for the morning thus settled, she sat quietly down to her book after breakfast, resolving to remain in the same place and the same employment till the clock struck one; and from habitude very little incommoded by the remarks and ejaculations of Mrs. Allen, whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such, that as she never talked a great deal, so she could never be entirely silent; and, therefore, while she sat at her work, if she lost her needle or broke her thread, if she heard a carriage in the street, or saw a speck upon her gown, she must observe it aloud, whether there were anyone at leisure to answer her or not.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This she had been prepared for when she entered the house; but meant, having once talked him handsomely over, to be no farther incommoded by any troublesome topic, and to wander at large amongst all the Mistresses and Misses of Highbury, and their card-parties.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)