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单词 encumber
释义
encumber
(ɪnkʌmbəʳ )
Word forms: encumbers , encumbering , encumbered
1. verb
If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.
Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore. [VERB noun]
It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s. [be VERB-ed + with]
Synonyms: burden, load, embarrass, saddle  
encumbered adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
The rest of the world is less encumbered with legislation. [+ with/by]
I'm sure we all wish to be less encumbered by rules which we think unnecessary and restricting.
2. verb
If a place is encumbered with things, it contains so many of them that it is difficult to move freely there.
The narrow quay was encumbered by hundreds of carts. [be VERB-ed preposition]
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