- present participle of encumber.
encumbering
Example Sentences
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Forbes reported on how the influx of returns has encumbering retailers since early 2021.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
This can be an offer to hold any encumbering items — though not, presumably, the cane.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021
None will likely feel the strain encumbering Matsuyama in the coming days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
Personally, I blame the baggy white t-shirt Mickelson was wearing underneath his polo, the added weight encumbering his movement.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 25, 2020
On my departure from Stavropol, the governor strongly insisted on giving me an escort; but I refused it, for fear of encumbering my movements, and resolved to trust to my lucky star.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
