cumber

Theodore Roosevelt had already warned what would befall an Indian who refused his allotment: “Let him, like these whites, who will not work, perish from the face of the earth which he cumbers.”

Adam objected, “and art cumbered with crutches as well. And how wilt thou cross the river? The bridge is well guarded at both ends.”

It made him feel cumbered and foolish, and he wondered once more why he was here.

Within these modest limits we have brought the greater part of that monstrous host of crosses which cumber the dictionaries.

In every day of his life he was occupied with many things, but he was never cumbered.