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v. To put a heavy load on; burden: a hiker who was encumbered with a heavy pack; a life that has always been encumbered with responsibilities.

v. To hinder or impede the action or performance of: restrictions that encumber police work.

v. To burden with legal or financial obligations: an estate that is encumbered with debts.

v. to load down something with a burden

v. to restrict or block something with a hindrance or impediment

v. to add a legal claim or other obligation

v. To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass

v. To load with debts, or other legal claims.

To clog or impede with a load, burden, or other hindrance; render difficult or laborious in motion or operation; embarrass; overload; perplex; obstruct.

Specifically To place (property) under a charge or servitude; load with debt or liability: as, to encumber an estate with mortgages, or with a widow's dower; an encumbered title. See encumbrance, 3.

n. An encumbrance; a hindrance.

v. hold back

"Spending cuts will further encumber the Navy's already withering fleet, which plays a central role in AirSea Battle."

unload    disencumber    unencumber   

encumbers   

limit    throttle    trammel    restrain    bound    restrict    confine   

bridle    curb    clog   

encumbrous    encumbrance   

check    perplex    block    retard    hinder    embarrass    overload    clog    load    oppress   

Humber    cumber    lumber    number    outnumber    slumber    unencumber   

tarantass    encircle