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12 words match “ENCUMBRANCE”

ENCUMBRANCE n. 2 definitions
That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.
ENCUMBRANCER n.
Same as Incumbrancer.
DISENCUMBRANCE n.
Freedom or deliverance from encumbrance, or anything burdensome or troublesome. Spectator.
CLOG n.
That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind. All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke.
COMBER n.
Encumbrance. [Obs.]
CUMBRANCE n.
Encumbrance. [Obs.] Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton.
DISENCUMBER v.
To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
ENCUMBERMENT n.
Encumbrance. [R.]
INCOMMODITY n.
Inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage; encumbrance. [Archaic] Bunyan. A great incommodity to the body. Jer. Taylor. Buried him under a bulk of incommodities. Hawthorne.
INCUBUS n.
Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties. Debt and usury is the incubus which weighs most heavily on the agricultural resources of Turkey. J. L. Farley.
UNCLOG v.
To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty. Shak.
UNEMBARRASSED a.
Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances; as, he and his property are unembarrassed.