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Definition of "incommode" [in•com•mode]

  • To cause to be inconvenienced; disturb. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "incommode" in a sentence
  • "Speculation centers on the Second Congressional District, which could incommode our personal traffic."
  • "Of course, this does not incommode me as much as losing sight or hearing would; but it is no very pleasant thing for all that, and I'm curious as to why it has so low a profile in the world as a whole as to be, effectively, nameless why should anosmia be anomic?"
  • "With the fall of night had come a mist just damp enough to incommode, but not sufficient to saturate them."