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incumber

[ in-kuhm-ber ]

verb (used with object)

  1. a less common variant of encumber.


incumber

/ ɪnˈkʌmbə /

verb

  1. a less common spelling of encumber
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • inˈcumbrance, noun
  • inˈcumberingly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • unin·cumbered adjective
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Example Sentences

By placing second in the primary vote in California's 12th Congressional District primary, Buttar has earned himself a spot on the November general election ballot as a challenger to incumber and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

From Salon

They take from the individual the natural and constitutional right of owning and controlling his own property, and license the agents of a county, city, or town, to incumber his property with a debt, without his consent and against his protest.

But it was intirely lost, every one deserted the Bank; and notwithstanding the Menaces given out, that the Species would be lower’d, People rather chose to keep their Money, which would be always worth something, than to incumber themselves with Bills, which, whenever the Prince took the Whim, would only be attended with the melancholy Reflection by the Possessors, that they were once well to pass.

The rest of the Building, which joins to this Garden, is of the same Magnificence, but yet perhaps a little too much incumber’d with carv’d Work.

In the same Court there is likewise a very fine Fountain, the Group of which is of Brass very curiously wrought, but so incumber'd with Works of different Kinds, that 'tis difficult to distinguish them.

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