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Encumber Encumbered Heavy Load ɪn'kʌmbər N.堆满 Room Furniture

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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
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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.
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