transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnkʌmbə(r) ]
( encumbers, encumbering, encumbered)
If you are encumbered by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.
Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore...
It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
= burden
VERB : V n , be V-ed with n
• en‧cum‧bered
The rest of the world is less encumbered with legislation...
ADJ : v-link ADJ , usu ADJ with/by n