encumbered
Speech parts
1. encumbered - Adjective
2. encumbered - Verb
Meaning
of Encumber
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a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels
a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack
an encumbered estate
According to Aristotle Leucippus differed from the Eleatics in not being encumbered by the "conceptual intermingling" of being and non-being, and Plato made the necessary distinction between "grades of being and types of negation".
According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.
By the unavoidable imperfection of the translations, he states, the understanding is encumbered.