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Definition of encumbered : of Encumber

Synonyms:

involved, heavy-laden, mortgaged, loaded down

crippled, snarled, braked, entangled, barred, checked, complicated, entrapped, thwarted, jammed, delayed, hamstrung, fouled, impaired, hindered, constrained, clogged, dammed, blocked, plugged, resisted, restrained, stopped, choked, interrupted, countered, bunged, baffled, tangled, inhibited, detained, frustrated, snagged, restricted, mired, impeded, dragged, caught, hampered, paralyzed, obstructed, cramped, congested, bottlenecked, constipated, opposed, stayed, crimped, curbed, deterred, fettered

corrected, burdened, drawn back, disciplined, fined, drew back, penalized, forfeited, chastised, deducted, handicapped, punished, abated, discounted, judged

Usage examples:

• They were not, indeed, encumbered with dignity or self- respect. - "Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius", Samuel Dill.
• It was this attitude of mind which encumbered his project for a stage- line to the Black Hills with difficulties from the very start. - "Roosevelt in the Bad Lands", Hermann Hagedorn.
• Here the harvest of death fell thickest, and the corpses lay heaped together, while dying wretches crawled about the public streets, and encumbered the fountain- sides, to which they had dragged themselves in their longing for drink. - "Stories From Thucydides", H. L. Havell.