encumbered
Meaning of encumbered
- restrict or impede (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
she was encumbered by her heavy skirts
they had arrived encumbered with families
Middle English (in the sense ‘cause trouble to, entangle’; formerly also as incumber ): from Old French encombrer ‘block up’, from en- ‘in’ + combre ‘river barrage’.
Information about encumbered
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of encumbered
en-cum-bered
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- encumbered is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
encumbered synonyms
Meaning a basket with a carrying handle and a hinged lid, used for food, cutlery, and plates on a picnic:
Meaning make it difficult for (someone) to do something or for (something) to happen:
Meaning (in various sports) impede (a player in the opposing team) in a manner which constitutes an offence:
Meaning delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder:
Meaning examine (something) in order to determine its accuracy, quality, or condition, or to detect the presence of something:
Meaning inhibit the development of:
Meaning hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process):
Meaning put a limit on; keep under control:
Meaning set or serve as a limit to:
Meaning compel or force (someone) to follow a particular course of action:
Meaning prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits:
Meaning delay or hold back in terms of progress or development:
Meaning reduce one's speed or the speed of a vehicle or process:
Meaning stop or cause to stop making progress:
Meaning make (someone or something) late or slow:
Meaning cause trouble or difficulty to:
Meaning put in an unfavourable position in relation to someone or something else:
Meaning act as an impediment to:
encumbered antonyms
Meaning help or support (someone or something) in the achievement of something:
Meaning make (an action or process) easy or easier:
Translation of encumbered
- German: behindert, belastet
- Italian: gravato, ingombrato
Words that rhyme with encumbered
ered, quaered, ambered, barbered, beblubbered, beslobbered, beslubbered, blabbered, blubbered, calibered, cambered, chambered, clabbered, clambered, clobbered, cumbered, discumbered, disencumbered, dismembered, disremembered, fibered, foreremembered, gibbered, incumbered, jabbered, jibbered, limbered, lumbered, membered, misnumbered, misremembered, multichambered, multifibered, nontimbered, numbered, outnumbered, overtimbered, partimembered, prenumbered, remembered, renumbered, rubbered, sabered, scumbered, slabbered, slobbered, slubbered, slumbered, sobered, sombered