incumber

[ in-kuhm-ber ]

/ ɪnˈkʌm bər /

verb (used with object)

Nearby words

incult, inculturation, incumbency, incumbent, incumbent on, incumber, incumbrance, incunable, incunabula, incur, incurable

Related forms

un·in·cum·bered, adjective

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Examples from the Web for incumbered

So it seemed that Owen Lovejoy and his friends had incumbered Lincoln with a fatal handicap.
Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I.|John T. Morse
He left it with a ruined constitution, an incumbered estate, and not a shilling of ready money!
The History of Gambling in England|John Ashton
But fortune turned hir saile, and otherwise it happened than their feare them incumbered.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (6 of 9)|Raphael Holinshed
But the translator of a living author is incumbered with additional inconveniences.
The Piccolomini|Friedrich Schiller

But they are incumbered, not aided, by their very instruments, and by all the apparatus of the state.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)|Edmund Burke

British Dictionary definitions for incumbered

incumber

/ (ɪnˈkʌmbə) /

verb

a less common spelling of encumber

Derived Forms

incumberingly, adverbincumbrance, noun

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