All 3 Uses of
encumber
in
Great Expectations
- You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition.†
Chpt 18 *
- Again, not a very difficult condition with which to encumber such a rise in fortune; but if you have any objection to it, this is the time to mention it.†
Chpt 18
- I was going out at the opposite door,—not easy to open now, for the damp wood had started and swelled, and the hinges were yielding, and the threshold was encumbered with a growth of fungus,—when I turned my head to look back.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(encumber) hinder (make more difficult, or less valuable, hold back, or weigh down)