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encumber

verb (encumber, encumbers, encumbered, encumbering)

«encumber» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

To encumber someone is to weigh them down or slow them with too much to carry. tree →
To encumber a place is to fill it so there is not room to move. tree →

In the lessons

to load or burden someone, so they cannot move well; an old use, found in old tales and poems

Examples

If you are wise, you will not encumber yourself with more than thirty. tree →
The shore was encumbered with fish. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

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