0 present participle of encumber --
1 to weigh someone or something down, or to make it difficult for someone to do something: --
Haley described the experience of wearing all of the prosthetics and make-up as pretty encumbering.
On this album, too, the songs all embrace a single subject: each tells a story about people who try to cope with an emotional encumbering situation.
He criticized ostentatious, costly, and encumbering women's clothing, materialistic commercialism, and the wealthy class which monopolized society's economic resources.
Markerless motion capture aims at simplifying the motion capture process by avoiding encumbering the performer with markers.
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.
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.
But equally, we see no point in encumbering the statute book with provisions which are not needed.
One of the difficulties of agriculture since the last war has been the existence of a great deal of dead wood encumbering the industry.
