incumber
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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It is my destiny to make sacrifices; of course, if my son chooses to incumber himself with a miserable thing like that, he need not ask his mother.
From The Old Homestead by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The girl springs up, ready to accept the chance a kind fate has thrown in her way, and with a startled, curious glance at the piles of slain that incumber the cavern, follows her friends.
From Miss Caprice by St. George Rathborne
He seized the girl's hand and hung on with a tenacity that bade fair to incumber her forevermore.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
He knew that a war party setting out to steal ponies would never incumber themselves in that manner.
From White Otter by Elmer Russell Gregor
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
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