encumber in English

verb

1

restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.

she was encumbered by her heavy skirts

synonyms: hamper, hinder, obstruct, impede, cramp, inhibit, restrict, limit, constrain, restrain, bog down, retard, slow (down), inconvenience, disadvantage, handicap

verb

hamper, hinder, obstruct, impede, cramp, inhibit, restrict, limit, constrain, restrain, bog down, retard, slow (down), inconvenience, disadvantage, handicap
burden, load, weigh down, saddle, overwhelm, tax, stress, strain, overload, overburden
cumber, restrain, constrain

Use "encumber" in a sentence

1. They would interrupt and encumber me.

2. They can't encumber us on the road.

3. I don't want encumber myself with unnecessary luggage.

4. I don't want to encumber myself with unnecessary luggage.

5. 3 I don't want to encumber myself with unnecessary luggage.

6. What does Accumber mean? (obsolete) To encumber; to crush; to overwhelm

7. Why should we encumber them with cultural constraints they do not need?

8. To be human is merely to encumber the turning of the wheel.

9. Accumber, a verb meaning "To encumber." is misspelled in many ways

10. He shall not encumber his brain with the coil of rhythm and number.

11. One should not encumber oneself with hire purchase repayments at the beginning of a marriage.

12. As verbs the difference between enCumbered and Cumbered is that enCumbered is (encumber) while Cumbered is (cumber).

13. How can a system of females choosing males that are good at surviving encumber those males with handicaps to survival?

14. 23 Environmental hormone disturb the mechanism of internal secretion, make it malajustment, encumber the procreation of organism or bring the malignancy.

15. Accable (third-person singular simple present Accables, present participle accabling, simple past and past participle Accabled) ( transitive , obsolete ) To overwhelm ; to encumber

16. Accumber (third-person singular simple present Accumbers, present participle Accumbering, simple past and past participle Accumbered) ( obsolete , transitive ) To encumber ; to crush ; to overwhelm .

17. Bemire may be defined as “To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire”, “To soil with mire; dirty or muddy: Bemired clothing” and “To cause (an object or person) to sink in mire: a Bemired wagon ”.

18. Also, that he useth busily to propound, & urge to the utmost such sophisms, as may involve and encumber the Truth; and, as for Assoiling [solving] them, never to attempt it, but rather to leave them in their full strength, that they may stick in the minds of his readers.

19. Burthen: 1 v weight down with a load Synonyms: burden , weight , weight down Antonyms: disburden , unburden take the burden off; remove the burden from Types: overburden load with excessive weight plumb weight with lead saddle load or burden; encumber Type of: charge fill or load to capacity n a variant of `burden' Type of: burden , load ,

20. Cloy (v.) "weary by too much, fill to loathing, surfeit," 1520s, from Middle English Cloyen "hinder movement, encumber" (late 14c.), a shortening of acCloyen (early 14c.), from Old French encloer "to fasten with a nail, grip, grasp," figuratively "to hinder, check, stop, curb," from Late Latin inclavare "drive a nail into a horse's foot when shoeing," from Latin clavus "a nail" (from PIE root