Encumber is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENCUMBER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to impede the motion of, also INCUMBER
• restrict or impede (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult
• hinder or impede
• To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.
• To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
• hold back
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to hinder in action or movement

Words related to ENCUMBER

encumbered17 encumbering18 encumberingly23 encumbers15 incumber14

How to use ENCUMBER in a sentence

• It would be suicide to encumber himself with this girl in his flight.
• In this case the time would be short, Doc Coffin having been one of those that more or less encumber the face of the earth.
• Let me invite your Lordships to look at the formidable difficulties that now encumber us in India, with a due sense of proportion.
• Our common grammarians are disposed to encumber the language with as many of both as they can find any excuse for, and vastly more than can be sustained by any good argument.
• Words that are entirely needless, and especially such as injure or encumber the expression, ought in general to be omitted.
• To encumber himself with prisoners of any sort, in his actual situation, would have been a capital mistake, but to do this with wounded men would have been an act of folly.
• The corruptions of mortality, which encumber and cloud the human intellect, hide it, as with a thick veil, from mortal eyes.
• This would be far better in my judgment, since it has the square in front, and would not encumber the street.
• But they were not such fools as to encumber their march with the fragments of the edifice they had themselves spoilt.
• Lord Barrymore was brilliant, eccentric, and dissipated, and in his short life he managed to spend 300,000 pounds and encumber his estates.
• It might save the too monotonous repetition of recumbent bishops, who, after being exhibited at the Academy, finally encumber valuable space in their own cathedrals.
• I mean the moral duty of avoiding to encumber yourself with private pupils in any number.
• It is then that the weight of taxes, the high price of commodities, and the various causes which encumber those who live in wealthy nations, begin to produce a pernicious effect.
• They haunted the bays along the coasts of Sweden and Norway, and the islands which encumber the entrance to the Baltic Sea.
• It is needless to encumber my narrative by any statement of the questions which I felt it my duty to put to her under these circumstances.
• In Hindustan humans came up like flies, returning over and over to again encumber the crowded earth.
• Let no traveller encumber himself or herself with a trunk on the Continent.
• Therefore, to get ideas without getting their significant relations, is to encumber the mind with ill-digested material.
• Removal of the stationary boats which at present encumber the avenue to the factory gardens at the river-side.
• Do not you encumber yourself with one of those fragile ornaments, only fit to put in a glass case, so brittle and so costly that you are always obliged to be careful of them.
• My fearful countenance the clouds so doth encumber, That often for dread thereof the very earth doth quake.
• Tell the refugees you meet to pull to the right and not encumber the whole road.
• But does your Grace mean to give me the studs without the casket?” “The casket would encumber you.
• A rifle, ammunition, and a light knapsack were all the baggage with which they dared encumber themselves.
• The reasons for this are complicated, and to try to assign them all would needlessly encumber our exposition.
• Bran promised me that the people should not be allowed to encumber the paths and the front of their houses with unsightly and untidy heaps of oyster shells.
• The conquerors did not wish to encumber themselves with captives.
• For be had resolved to go forth into the world and make his fortune, not to encumber his poor mother with his support any longer.

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