Encumbrance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENCUMBRANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something that encumbers, also INCUMBRANCE
• an impediment or burden
• a mortgage or other claim on property or assets
• a person, especially a child, who is dependent on someone else for support.
• That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.
• Same as Incumbrance.
• an onerous or difficult concern
• a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
• something that encumbers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something that encumbers; impediment, burden

Words related to ENCUMBRANCE

encumbrances20

Words that contain ENCUMBRANCE

encumbrancer20 encumbrances20 encumbrancers21 disencumbrance23 disencumbrances24

How to use ENCUMBRANCE in a sentence

• Difficulty, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, encumbrance, handicap.
• Had he brought with him Persians and Indians, and those other nations, it would be dragging after him an encumbrance other than a support.
• Probably they were discussing at that very moment the best plan of disposing of the boy, who had become a dangerous encumbrance to them and their employer.
• So desperate had been the charge that our little craft was now actually a serious encumbrance to the monster.
• He was arriving like a ghost, and the sound of his own footsteps was almost an encumbrance to be got rid of.
• In half an hour they arose majestically from the place, without taking the least notice of their encumbrance.
• But the soft soil allows the board to sink, and he often throws it aside as more encumbrance than use.
• Her husband, the Earl of Merivale, she regarded as a necessary encumbrance, inevitable to the possession of the famous Merivale diamonds.
• CHAPTER IV THE SOL-FA METHOD To those who are not accustomed to the Sol-fa notation it appears at first sight a useless encumbrance.
• Except in April, May and November, an umbrella is apt to be a useless encumbrance.
• He was looking for a party of two and a baby, and all he saw was one woman who might remind him of me, but without her attendant or any encumbrance.
• It was an adornment for him and not an encumbrance.
• Oh, if she would but allow me to free her from so odious an encumbrance! There is no divorce so quick and certain as that which I could give her.
• Therefore, I, Etienne Gerard, their friend, would pay the debt of gratitude which I owed them by freeing them of this encumbrance.
• She moved away into a modest cottage of her own, resolved that she would not be an encumbrance to any one.
• The teams and wagons and the blacksmith shop seemed to be all that she could save from the wreckage, and these appeared to be more of an encumbrance than otherwise.
• At the same time Holland was to be evacuated by the French troops, while Switzerland was to be freed from all encumbrance.
• At the same time, she proved a decided encumbrance on his rapid journeyings.
• The ancient mariner had been voted an encumbrance and exchanged for a jolly young waterman.
• In the two best languages that ever were spoken, the Greek and the Latin, there is no similar encumbrance of expression to be found.
• He would gladly have parted with one of the bags in order to get rid of this encumbrance.
• This is a vast encumbrance in a modern commercial metropolis, but a striking tribute to the unseen.
• Those of whom we speak were dragging their baggage with them, often an encumbrance.
• A boy or girl is never considered an encumbrance and is readily even eagerly adopted if his own parents die.
• The horse unable to shake off this new and strange encumbrance, made for the thickest covert of the woods and brambles, with the speed of the winds.
• He felt it as a fetter, an encumbrance, something which made them both, but him in particular, ridiculous.
• But the encumbrance in this instance proved to be a wonderful preservative and means of comparison.
• The people are discontented and clamorous, and they ought to be freed from this encumbrance.
• Multitudes seem to have gone to the diggings with every species of encumbrance, and in a totally unsuitable garb.

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