encumbering 的定义
- 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.
encumbering 近义词
bother, burden
更多encumbering例句
- 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!