incumber
Americanverb (used with object)
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A man of literature need not incumber his memory with whole passages from the authors he wants to quote; he need only mark down the page, and the words are safe.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
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
Though these were of a weight sufficient greatly to incumber, if not to sink, an ordinary swimmer, so expert were, they in the water that they appeared in no way to be inconvenienced.
From The African Trader The Adventures of Harry Bayford by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
I shall not incumber this narrative with literal extracts from these proceedings, but give the substance of what I find there, with such illustration as I have been able to glean from other sources.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various
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