incommode

French incommoder, Latin incommodare (“inconvenient”).

incommode (third-person singular simple present incommodes, present participle incommoding, simple past and past participle incommoded)

1. 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!

• discommode
• inconvenience

• commode

• Homophones: incommodent, incommodes

incommode

1. first-person singular present indicative of incommoder
2. third-person singular present indicative of incommoder
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of incommoder
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of incommoder
5. second-person singular imperative of incommoder

incommode

1. vocative masculine singular of incommodus

• incommode in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incommode in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incommode in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette