Front | encumber |
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Pron | [ɪn'kʌmbər] |
Back | 【encumber】 n.堆满 The room was encumbered with heavy furniture. 房内堆满了笨重的家具。 |
Vocab | encumberhold back
To encumber is to weigh someone or something down with a physical or psychological burden. You may find yourself encumbered by a heavy backpack or with anxieties. Either way, it's a heavy load to bear! You can also use encumber to describe something that restricts you in some way: you're so encumbered by your homework load you can’t go to the concert Saturday night. The root, cumber, has several shades of meaning — including "to burden" and "to be overwhelmed." All forms of 'encumber' will appear on average once every 1606 pages. cumber encumber disencumber encumbered unencumbered |
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