0 present participle of encumber
1 to weigh someone or something down, or to make it difficult for someone to do something:
Studies of mouse vision require a reliable measure of retinal sensitivity without encumbering effects of anesthesia.
It would therefore seem unnecessary for the accounts to be retained locally encumbering the warehouses of local authorities for a longer period than two years.
One of the difficulties of agriculture since the last war has been the existence of a great deal of dead wood encumbering the industry.
But equally, we see no point in encumbering the statute book with provisions which are not needed.
We achieved the right balance by insisting on such assessments where they are relevant but without encumbering the planning system by insisting on them in cases where they are not.
What is equally important, however, is that the efficiency of financial supervision be enhanced without encumbering the financial sector with an excessive supervisory burden or restricting competition.
Markerless motion capture aims at simplifying the motion capture process by avoiding encumbering the performer with markers.
He criticized ostentatious, costly, and encumbering women's clothing, materialistic commercialism, and the wealthy class which monopolized society's economic resources.
