encumber
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It only incumbers it and interferes with the flow and euphony.
From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Nay, it is fundamentally unjust; for a man that breeds a family without competent means of maintenance incumbers other men with his children, and disables them so far from maintaining their own.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Why should a barren and fruitless tree take up any room in the garden, when it only incumbers the ground on which it grows?
From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann
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