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encumbering

/en-kuhm-ber/US // ɛnˈkʌm bər //UK // (ɪnˈkʌmbə) //

抵押品,抵押,抵押担保,抵押物

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to impede or hinder; hamper; retard: Red tape encumbers all our attempts at action.
    • : to block up or fill with what is obstructive or superfluous: a mind encumbered with trivial and useless information.
    • : to burden or weigh down: She was encumbered with a suitcase and several packages.
    • : to burden with obligations, debt, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbother, burden
Antonyms

Examples

  • The Consumer Financial Protection Agency can bog down any other agency by encumbering agency rules or policies.

  • How infinitely better such books than pamphlets on political economy, for example, now encumbering the whole land!

  • When, therefore, the encumbering folds of the blanket descended, it was too late to resist.

  • He seemed to have shed his blundering, encumbering personality, and come to life as a disembodied intelligence.

  • All non-combatants and refugees should go to the rear and be discouraged from encumbering us.

  • Were he but free from these encumbering robes; were he but a man like the poet or the Chevalier!