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Great Expectations vocabulary
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incommode
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synonyms: discommode ???
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Definition:to inconvenience
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[he] had brought them over the mountains by such ways that they were not much incommoded with the snow; for where they met with snow in any quantity, they said it was frozen hard enough to bear them and their horses.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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(after the characters prop a dead body in the rear passenger seat)
Irving: It would be incommodious if we got stopped for a traffic violation.
Paramount Pictures. S.O.B. (film) (1981)
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"I wouldn't have incommoded none of you, if I'd had my way."
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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she was only incommoded by the rain in the wind and the splashes from the floor boards.
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.35 (1935)
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I felt that it was not necessary for me to incommode myself with the diverse literary theories which had for a time troubled me
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 7]
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