Word Meanings - ENCUMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.

• Embarrass
  To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.
• Retarding
  of Retard
• Weighbridge
  A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.
• Embarrassment
  A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.
• Weigher
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• Encumbered
  of Encumber
• Motioned
  of Motion
• Retardation
  The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
• Weigh-houses
  of Weigh-house
• Actionable
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• Encumbering
  of Encumber
• Motioning
  of Motion
• Retardative
  Tending, or serving, to retard.
• Weigh-house
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• Actionably
  In an actionable manner.
• Encumber
  To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.

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