Sample Sentences forencumber (editor-reviewed)
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Digital distribution is encumbered by old copyright law.encumbered = hindered (made more difficult)
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Dill was encumbered by the chair, and his pace was slower. (source)encumbered = hindered
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He was seated in my chair at the desk, bending down to adjust the gross encumbrance of his leg, so that only the familiar ears set close against his head were visible, and his short-cut brown hair. (source)encumbrance = something that hinders
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The carriage stopped, as I had expected, at the hotel door; my flame (that is the very word for an opera inamorata) alighted: though muffed in a cloak — an unnecessary encumbrance, by-the-bye, on so warm a June evening — I knew her instantly by her little foot, seen peeping from the skirt of her dress, as she skipped from the carriage-step. (source)encumbrance = hindrance or impediment
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He felt now bitterly the truth of the old king's words: in such a battle what would you do Meriadoc? 'Just this,' he thought: 'encumber a rider, and hope at best to stay in my seat and not be pounded to death by galloping hoofs!' (source)encumber = hinder
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And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and burdened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must . . . eventually . . . fall. (source)encumbered = hindered (made less able to move freely)
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You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition. (source)encumbered = burdened
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Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow procession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it.† (source)
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At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unencumbered means not and reverses the meaning of encumbered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Since he owns property, he will probably resist every attempt to prejudice or encumber it. (source)encumber = burden (make less valuable)
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That is, were there any encumbrances or conditions?† (source)
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But somewhere, twenty seconds, ten seconds ago, the last glue crumbled, the last bolt of life fell free, and the mummy-doll, the Erector-set grotesque disencumbered itself in smoke puffs and November leaflets, a broadcast of mortality along the wind.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disencumbered reverses the meaning of encumbered. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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He's intentionally lost that huge baggage, those encumbering remnants of blood and flesh, and because of this he carries no memory of a house, no memory of a land, he seems to have emerged from nowhere.† (source)
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It's the way civilized man now encumbers his territory, not with great walls or stretches of wire but with a single wellplaced device, a neat bundling with the workings of a mind.† (source)
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Down comes the rider headlong from his height: His horse came after with unwieldy weight, And, flound'ring forward, pitching on his head, His lord's incumber'd shoulder overlaid.† (source)
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I went on, nevertheless, with a good deal of patience, thinking that his encumber'd circumstances were partly the cause.† (source)
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