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Definition
hinder (make more difficult, or less valuable, hold back, or weigh down)
- The quadroon nurse was looked upon as a huge encumbrance, only good to button up waists and panties and to brush and part hair; since it seemed to be a law of society that hair must be parted and brushed.Chapter 4 (13% in)
- They went together, picking their way across muddy streets and sidewalks encumbered with the cheap display of small tradesmen.Chapter 33 (73% in)
There are no more uses of "encumber" in The Awakening.
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