incumber
Americanverb (used with object)
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The shops of the pastry-cooks and confectioners are filled with them, mountains of them incumber the counters, and for days before Christmas crowds of purchasers throng to buy them.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
Even buildings run up in haste with untempered mortar in that humid weather, if they are ill-contrived tenements, do not threaten long to incumber the earth.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
He had inherited a historic title, and thousands of acres which he had scarcely seen, but which he had helped to incumber.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles
The author has not deemed it necessary to incumber his pages with notes to substantiate his statements.
From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
It was, therefore, unnecessary to incumber this paper, by proving that which none disputes.
From The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. by Payne, Buckner H. 'Ariel'
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