Crossword clues for encumbered
encumbered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encumber \En*cum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Encumbering.] [F. encombrer; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. combrer to hinder. See Cumber, and cf. Incumber.]
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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.
Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience.
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To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
Syn: To load; clog; oppress; overload; embarrass; perplex; hinder; retard; obstruct; check; block.
Wiktionary
weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow. v
(en-past of: encumber)
WordNet
adj. loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"- A.J.Liebling; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"; "an encumbered estate" [ant: unencumbered]
Usage examples of "encumbered".
Instead of pursuing the great object of ambition, their leisure, their affections, the powers of their mind, were diverted by pomp and pleasure: the rewards of valor were embezzled by women and eunuchs, and the royal camp was encumbered by the luxury of the palace.
Unpractised in the use of pikes, or of missile weapons, they were encumbered by the length of their swords, the weight of their armor, the magnitude of their shields, and, if I may repeat the satire of the meagre Greeks, by their unwieldy intemperance.
Attacking them encumbered with baggage, and not expecting him, he cut to pieces a great part of them.
While the enemy were encumbered by reason of the burdens which they were carrying, he orders a sally to be made suddenly from two gates [of the camp].
They, although on account of their great number and their ancient renown in war, and the small number of our men, they supposed they might safely fight, nevertheless considered it safer to gain the victory without any wound, by besetting the passes [and] cutting off the provisions: and if the Romans, on account of the want of corn, should begin to retreat, they intended to attack them while encumbered in their march and depressed in spirit [as being assailed while] under baggage.
A dizzy multitude fills the roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men.
The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with horses and riders, inextricably heaped up.
The grave-digger's dwelling was, like all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret.
Especially encumbered as the horse was with its own armor: scale mail covering the top of its head and its neck down to the withers, with additional sheets of mail protecting its chest and its front shoulders.
Belisarius was struck by the regal grace of her movements, as encumbered as Theodora must have been by those incredible imperial robes.
He chuckled softly, seeing how poorly the young prince wore the strange Byzantine costume he found himself encumbered within.