Definition of Encumbers

1. Verb. (third-person singular of encumber) ¹

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Definition of Encumbers

1. encumber [v] - See also: encumber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encumbers

encu method
enculturate
enculturated
enculturates
enculturating
enculturation
enculturations
encumber
encumbered
encumberer
encumberers
encumbering
encumberingly
encumberment
encumberments
encumbers
encumbrance
encumbrancer
encumbrancers
encumbrances
encumbrous
encur
encurtain
encurtained
encurtaining
encurtains

Literary usage of Encumbers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Nathless dark dread encumbers those lords' breasts ; That, from this day, should fortune of the war, Go backward. ..."

2. A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII. by John Chetwode Eustace (1815)
"The paintings might then be restored with perfect security, and the work of reparation finished by removing the present Gothic obelisk that encumbers the ..."

3. The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1900)
"The myth never encumbers the poet and gets in his way. It does not have the appearance of something in the wrong place, which makes itself the excuse for ..."

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