Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that encumbers; a burden or impediment.
- n. Law A lien or claim on property.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of encumbering, or the state of being encumbered.
- n. That which encumbers, burdens, or clogs; anything that impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; an obstruction or impediment; an embarrassment.
- n. Specifically In law, a charge or servitude affecting property, which diminishes the value of ownership, or may impair its enjoyment, so as to constitute a qualification or diminution of the rights of ownership. It does not impair ownership or power to convey, bnt implies a burden which will continue on the property in the hands of the purchaser. If a person owns only an undivided share in land, the share of his cotenant is not designated an encumbrance on his share; but if the land is subject to unpaid taxes or to a right of way, or if the land or one's share is subject to a mortgage or a mechanic's lien, it is said to be encumbered.
- n. A family charge or care; especially, a child or a family of children: as, a widow without encumbrance or encumbrances.
- n. Synonyms Burden, check, hindrance, drag, weight, dead weight.
Wiktionary
- n. Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
- n. an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See incumbrance.
- n. Same as Incumbrance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- n. a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- n. an onerous or difficult concern
Examples
“But at this stage Hitler wished to avoid the "encumbrance" of the capital cities, with their huge and hungry populations, and believed that by dividing his strength between the north, where Leningrad was to be”
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“Mrs. Corcoran Dunn's congratulations on riddance from the "encumbrance" shamed her and stilled the reproaches of her conscience.”
“But pupils are not readily attainable by a heretic woman, away from her natural home, and with a young child as "encumbrance".”
“Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life -- for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes -- I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free. ”
“In most cases, simply getting office floorplates to lay out well for residential units would be a serious encumbrance.”
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“* Whether there is a patent or other encumbrance that would make it illegal to build a competing device that can read or convert the "DRM-free" files”
“It is true that Francis's dream of a monastic order that renounced the encumbrance and corruption of property was frustrated by the papacy and by his own successors.”
“In America, land of the deckle edge, your chances of a pleasant surprise are greater; but the jacket remains an unnecessary and vulnerable encumbrance.”
“If you: make them track encumbrance minutely require them to make a lot of rolls to “wake up” in a campsite combat make them not carry loaded crossbows make them draw their swords in the first round of every combat require lots of skill checks to distinguish their ass from a hole in the ground and other stuff like that”
“Make sure and apply armor check/encumbrance penalties to those checks to overcome obstacles!”
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