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hinder (make more difficult, or less valuable, hold back, or weigh down)
- Families, single men, working girls in pairs bringing their beach and summer things, some not so visibly encumbered but heavily loaded all the same.Chapter 8 (89% in)
- Ah, sure, he was still a going concern, very much so, but he had to take thought more than others did about himself, since if he went wrong he was a total loss, nowise justified, a dead account, a basket case, an encumbrance, zero.Chapter 5 (62% in)
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