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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
incumber .
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Examples
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Certainly different busiensses enjoy or are incumbered by a varying degree of regulation.
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Certainly different busiensses enjoy or are incumbered by a varying degree of regulation.
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An inequality of years so considerable, had led him to expect that the fortune he had thus acquired, would speedily be released from the burthen with which it was at present incumbered; but his expectations proved as vain as they were mercenary, and his lady was not more the dupe of his protestations than he was himself of his own purposes.
Cecilia 2008
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The ground was difficult and rough, the island having been uninhabited; and the Lacedaemonians, who were incumbered by their arms, could not pursue them in such a place.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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In short, she is quite a common woman; has no fortune at all, as one may say, only a small jointure incumbered; and is much in debt.
Pamela 2006
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We then walked through a natural arch in the rock, which might have pleased us by its novelty, had the stones, which incumbered our feet, given us leisure to consider it.
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The bottom of the church is so incumbered with mud and rubbish, that we could make no discoveries of curious inscriptions, and what there are have been already published.
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Or, as when surrounded by a mephitical fog, I have wished to have a volley of cannon fired, to clear the incumbered atmosphere, and give me room to breathe and move.
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Q The 700 megahertz I know is a completely separate issue, but it has highlighted a problem with incumbered spectrum.
Telephone Briefing On Third Generation Wireless Technology ITY National Archives 2000
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“These specifications were intended for the guidance of practical wiremakers,” Paine said, “and are written in plain language, easily understood by practical men, and are not incumbered by the formula employed, or the details of calculations necessarily used in their construction.”
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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