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# encumber

«encumber» in Mova's school dictionary: **to weigh them down or slow them with too much to carry** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (encumber, encumbers, encumbered, encumbering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To encumber someone is to weigh them down or slow them with too much to carry. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/#x1)
- The shore was encumbered with fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «encumber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encumber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.