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encumber (verb):
1: weigh down, burden
2: to impede or hamper the function or activity of : hinder
3: to burden with a legal claim (such as a mortgage)
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : To be encumbered is to be held back, weighed down, overburdened. One can be encumbered physically (as by a heavy load or severe weather) or figuratively (as by, depression). Encumber traces back to the Middle French noun combre, which referred to a dam or weir constructed in the bed of a river to hold back fish or protect the banks. The notion of stoppage or blockage embedded in combre led to the verb encombre (“to obstruct, burden”) and further downstream to not only the English verb encumber, but adjectives cumbersome and cumbrous, both used to describe things that can slow one down. (Note, however, that the place name Cumberland—referring originally to a former county of northwestern England comes not from combre, but rather the Latin designation Cumbria, in turn was influenced by the Welsh Cymry.)
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