Encumber

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.

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• I will encumber you no more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The latter was encumbered with barges of coal in tow, and consequently could make but little speed against the rapid current of the Mississippi. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Brian de Bois-Guilbert rolled on the field, encumbered with the stirrup, from which he was unable to draw his foot. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• 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. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• 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. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• So encumbered, the Assembly set about its constructive task. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Their branches were encumbered with snow, and it silently dropped off in wet heaps while I stood at the window. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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