Encumbering
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Encumbering is an adjective meaning Acting as an encumbrance; cumbersome; burdensome or serving to impede progress.
Meaning
Acting as an encumbrance; cumbersome; burdensome or serving to impede progress.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of encumber
Example Sentences
There is not a more encumbering impediment to success, than the affection of gratitude.
"Why my husband wants him about—" poor Mrs. Lanfear, the kindest of women, privately lamented to her friends; for Dredge, at that time—they kept him all summer at the bungalow—had one of the most encumbering personalities you can imagine.
We are apt to think the close-fitted turban of the Asiatic a singular head-dress; and such as must be very encumbering in a hot climate; but this light yet bulky covering is, precisely, the defence which experience has taught the wearer to place upon his head, in situations in which the direct impulse of the rays might otherwise prove fatal.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cumber, restrain, constrain, borne, burdens, charge.
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