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encumbering

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The Consumer Financial Protection Agency can bog down any other agency by encumbering agency rules or policies.

How infinitely better such books than pamphlets on political economy, for example, now encumbering the whole land!

When, therefore, the encumbering folds of the blanket descended, it was too late to resist.

He seemed to have shed his blundering, encumbering personality, and come to life as a disembodied intelligence.

All non-combatants and refugees should go to the rear and be discouraged from encumbering us.

Were he but free from these encumbering robes; were he but a man like the poet or the Chevalier!

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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to encumbering, such as: intrusive, meddling, nosy, pushy, busy, and busybody.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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