encumber

«encumber» in Mova's school dictionary: to weigh them down or slow them with too much to carry — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (encumber, encumbers, encumbered, encumbering)

meaning for a pupil

1) To encumber someone is to weigh them down or slow them with too much to carry. tree →

2) To encumber a place is to fill it so there is not room to move. tree →

sense in the lessons

to load or burden someone, so they cannot move well; an old use, found in old tales and poems

examples

• If you are wise, you will not encumber yourself with more than thirty. tree →
• The shore was encumbered with fish. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «encumber» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.