- 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
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
Paintings and sculptures have been given without the encumbering restrictions sometimes demanded by private collectors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
“They are able to borrow things from each other’s labs and use discoveries without compromising or encumbering their intellectual property.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2016
Every poet was an original, more suo, mindless of the encumbering alloy, for they knew that the vein they had opened was their own, and confided too frequently in its abundance to find its richness.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli