Encumbered
[en'kʌmbəd]
Definition
(adj.) loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; 'a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels'- A.J.Liebling; 'a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack'; 'an encumbered estate' .
Typist: Psyche--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Encumber
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Examples
- The latter was encumbered with barges of coal in tow, and consequently could make but little speed against the rapid current of the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Brian de Bois-Guilbert rolled on the field, encumbered with the stirrup, from which he was unable to draw his foot. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But he was unluckily endowed with a good name and a large though encumbered estate, both of which went rather to injure than to advance him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Most of the early telegraphic inventors encumbered their inventions with the same obstacle, as they seemed to consider it necessary to have a separate circuit for each letter of the alphabet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- So encumbered, the Assembly set about its constructive task. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their branches were encumbered with snow, and it silently dropped off in wet heaps while I stood at the window. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And no tyrant-passion dragged him back; no enthusiasms, no foibles encumbered his way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her fortune was large, and our family estate much encumbered. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I went on, nevertheless, with a good deal of patience, thinking that his encumbered circumstances were partly the cause. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is the most flagrant example of an abominable public vehicle that ever encumbered the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Martin grinned as he toiled up the steep, encumbered field, difficult to the foot as a slope in the upper realms of Etna. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Being encumbered with the infant, he ran back to meet Thomasin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Her dress was of a lavender colour, and perfectly neat; but scantily made, as if she desired to be as little encumbered as possible. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Not the slightest embarrassment encumbered his explanation, though this was his first meeting with me after the scene in Montagu Square. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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