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: August 15, 2024
\in-KUM-ber\ verb
What It Means
Someone or something that is encumbered is burdened or weighed down (as in “tourists encumbered by heavy luggage”) or hindered (as in “negotiations encumbered by a lack of trust”).
// The children found it difficult to climb down the river's steep embankment, encumbered as they were by inner tubes and towels.
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