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# encumber

verb (encumber, encumbers, encumbered, encumbering)

«encumber» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To encumber someone is to weigh them down or slow them with too much to carry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/#m1)
2. To encumber a place is to fill it so there is not room to move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/#m2)

### In the lessons

to load or burden someone, so they cannot move well; an old use, found in old tales and poems

### Examples

- If you are wise, you will not encumber yourself with more than thirty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/#x1)
- The shore was encumbered with fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «encumber» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«encumber» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/encumber.html) on Mova free.