What is another word for encumber?
811 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɛnkˈʌmbə], [ ɛnkˈʌmbə], [ ɛ_n_k_ˈʌ_m_b_ə]
Encumber means to hinder, obstruct, or burden. Synonyms for encumber include hamper, impede, complicate, clog, slow down, weigh down, burden, hinder, obstruct, handicap, fetter, shackle, manacle, restrain, deter, prevent, constrict, restrain and block. Each of these synonyms emphasizes a different way of inhibiting or limiting movement or action, whether it be through physical or metaphorical means. Encumbrance can be caused by a variety of factors including obstacles, burdens, or restrictions. Whether in physical or abstract contexts, these synonyms convey a sense of difficulty and struggle that hinder forward progress or success.
Synonyms for Encumber:
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n.
• bog down- bog .
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v.
• burden- afflict ,
- bother ,
- crush ,
- depress ,
- dish out ,
- obligate ,
- overwhelm ,
- pile ,
- press ,
- strain ,
- trouble ,
- try ,
- vex ,
- worry .
- book ,
- chalk up ,
- choke ,
- commit ,
- cram ,
- crowd ,
- cuff ,
- debit ,
- entrust ,
- fill ,
- heap ,
- impregnate ,
- instill ,
- pack ,
- paste ,
- penetrate ,
- permeate ,
- pervade ,
- ram ,
- saturate ,
- suffuse ,
- weigh .
- blend ,
- clutter ,
- confound ,
- disarrange ,
- disarray ,
- discombobulate ,
- disorder ,
- disorganize ,
- entangle ,
- intermingle ,
- involve ,
- jumble ,
- litter ,
- mingle ,
- mistake ,
- muddle ,
- rumple ,
- tangle ,
- tousle ,
- tumble .
- bottle up ,
- check ,
- circumscribe ,
- clamp ,
- clasp ,
- confine ,
- fasten ,
- grip ,
- hamstring ,
- inhibit ,
- limit ,
- object ,
- restrict ,
- stymie ,
- thwart .
- adjourn ,
- arrest ,
- bar ,
- dawdle ,
- defer ,
- detain ,
- deter ,
- dilly-dally ,
- discourage ,
- drag ,
- filibuster ,
- hold ,
- interfere ,
- keep ,
- lag ,
- linger ,
- loiter ,
- postpone ,
- prevent ,
- procrastinate ,
- prolong ,
- repress ,
- shelve ,
- slacken ,
- stall ,
- stave off ,
- stay ,
- suspend ,
- table ,
- tarry ,
- temporize .
- cramp one style ,
- cramp ones style ,
- cramped one style ,
- cramped one's style ,
- cramped ones style ,
- cramped style ,
- cramping one style ,
- cramping one's style ,
- cramping ones style ,
- cramping style ,
- cramps one style ,
- cramps one's style ,
- cramps ones style ,
- cramps style ,
- drag one feet ,
- drag ones feet ,
- dragged one feet ,
- dragged one's feet ,
- dragged ones feet ,
- dragging one feet ,
- dragging one's feet ,
- dragging ones feet ,
- drags one feet ,
- drags one's feet ,
- drags ones feet ,
- gat in the way ,
- gat in way ,
- gat the way ,
- gat way ,
- get in way ,
- get the way ,
- get way ,
- gets in the way ,
- gets in way ,
- gets the way ,
- gets way ,
- getting in the way ,
- getting in way ,
- getting the way ,
- getting way ,
- got in the way ,
- got in way ,
- got the way ,
- got way ,
- gotten in the way ,
- gotten in way ,
- gotten the way ,
- gotten way ,
- in conveniences ,
- in-convenience ,
- in-conveniences ,
- slowing down ,
- slows down ,
- tie hands ,
- tie one hands ,
- tie ones hands ,
- tied hands ,
- tied one hands ,
- tied one's hands ,
- tied ones hands ,
- ties hands ,
- ties one hands ,
- ties one's hands ,
- ties ones hands ,
- tying hands ,
- tying one hands ,
- tying one's hands ,
- tying ones hands .
- put out commission ,
- puts out commission ,
- puts out of commission ,
- putting out commission ,
- putting out of commission ,
- sidelining .
- baffle ,
- bottleneck ,
- brake ,
- bung ,
- catch ,
- complicate ,
- constipate ,
- counter ,
- crimp ,
- cripple ,
- dam ,
- entrap ,
- foul ,
- frustrate ,
- impair ,
- interrupt ,
- oppose ,
- paralyze ,
- resist ,
- snag ,
- stop .
- inter lope ,
- inter loped ,
- inter lopes ,
- inter loping ,
- inter-lope ,
- inter-loped ,
- inter-lopes ,
- inter-loping .
- abused rights ,
- abuses rights ,
- abusing rights ,
- brake in on ,
- brake on ,
- break on ,
- breaking in on ,
- breaking on ,
- breaks in on ,
- breaks on ,
- broke in on ,
- broke on ,
- busybodying ,
- came uninvited ,
- chimed in ,
- chimes in ,
- chiming in ,
- comes uninvited ,
- coming uninvited ,
- crash gates ,
- crashed gates ,
- crashed the gates ,
- crashes gates ,
- crashes the gates ,
- crashing gates ,
- crashing the gates ,
- dabbled in ,
- dabbles in ,
- dabbling in ,
- fooled with ,
- fooling with ,
- fools with ,
- in fringe ,
- in fringed ,
- in fringes ,
- in quire ,
- in quired ,
- in quires ,
- in quiring ,
- in-fringe ,
- in-fringed ,
- in-fringes ,
- in-quire ,
- in-quired ,
- in-quires ,
- in-quiring ,
- inter meddle ,
- inter meddled ,
- inter meddles ,
- inter meddling ,
- inter pose ,
- inter posed ,
- inter posing ,
- inter-meddle ,
- inter-meddled ,
- inter-meddles ,
- inter-meddling ,
- inter-pose ,
- inter-posed ,
- inter-posing ,
- kibitzed ,
- kibitzes ,
- mixes in ,
- mixing in ,
- mixt in ,
- pushed in ,
- pushes in ,
- pushing in ,
- puts two cents in ,
- putting two cents in ,
- sidewalk superintend ,
- sidewalk superintended ,
- sidewalk superintending ,
- sidewalk superintends ,
- sidewalk-superintended ,
- sidewalk-superintending ,
- sidewalk-superintends ,
- sidewalksuperintend ,
- sidewalksuperintended ,
- sidewalksuperintending ,
- sidewalksuperintends ,
- sticked nose in ,
- sticking nose in ,
- sticks nose in ,
- stuck nose in ,
- wormed in ,
- worming in ,
- worms in .
- beating down ,
- beats down ,
- despotized ,
- despotizes ,
- despotizing ,
- dis hearten ,
- dis heartened ,
- dis heartening ,
- dis heartens ,
- dis tress ,
- dis tressed ,
- dis tresses ,
- dis-hearten ,
- dis-heartened ,
- dis-heartening ,
- dis-heartens ,
- dis-tress ,
- dis-tressed ,
- dis-tresses ,
- keeping down ,
- keeps down ,
- out raged ,
- out rages ,
- out-rage ,
- out-raged ,
- out-rages ,
- out-raging ,
- over come ,
- over comes ,
- over coming ,
- over powered ,
- over powering ,
- over powers ,
- over throw ,
- over throwing ,
- over thrown ,
- over throws ,
- over-comes ,
- over-coming ,
- over-power ,
- over-powered ,
- over-powering ,
- over-throw ,
- over-throwing ,
- over-thrown ,
- over-throws ,
- put up on ,
- puts screws to ,
- puts squeeze on ,
- puts the squeeze on ,
- puts up on ,
- puts upon ,
- putting screws to ,
- putting squeeze on ,
- putting the squeeze on ,
- putting up on ,
- putting upon ,
- sub jugate ,
- tyrranized ,
- tyrranizes ,
- tyrranizing ,
- weigh heavy up on ,
- weighed heavy up on ,
- weighed heavy upon ,
- weighing heavy up on ,
- weighing heavy upon ,
- weighs heavy up on ,
- weighs heavy upon .
- over burden ,
- over burdened ,
- over burdening ,
- over burdens ,
- over-burdened ,
- over-burdening ,
- over-burdens .
- Retribute ,
- abate ,
- chastise ,
- correct ,
- deduct ,
- discipline ,
- discount ,
- drawback ,
- fine ,
- forfeit ,
- judge ,
- penalize ,
- punish .
- be fuddle ,
- be fuddled ,
- be fuddles ,
- be fuddling ,
- be sets ,
- be setting ,
- be wilder ,
- be wildered ,
- be wildering ,
- be wilders ,
- be-fuddle ,
- be-fuddled ,
- be-fuddles ,
- be-fuddling ,
- be-set ,
- be-sets ,
- be-setting ,
- be-wilder ,
- be-wildered ,
- be-wildering ,
- be-wilders ,
- buffaloing ,
- dis compose ,
- dis composed ,
- dis composes ,
- dis composing ,
- dis-compose ,
- dis-composed ,
- dis-composes ,
- dis-composing ,
- gat to ,
- gotten to ,
- muddied the waters ,
- muddied waters ,
- muddies the waters ,
- muddies waters ,
- muddying the waters ,
- muddying waters ,
- sur prise ,
- sur prises ,
- sur prising ,
- sur-prise ,
- sur-prised ,
- sur-prises ,
- sur-prising .
- bring screeching halt ,
- bringing screeching halt ,
- bringing to screeching halt ,
- brings screeching halt ,
- brings to screeching halt ,
- brought screeching halt ,
- brought to screeching halt ,
- chokes off ,
- closes off ,
- de crease ,
- de creased ,
- de creases ,
- de creasing ,
- de-crease ,
- de-creased ,
- de-creases ,
- de-creasing ,
- re duce ,
- re duces ,
- re-duce ,
- re-duces ,
- retardated ,
- retardating ,
- slowing up ,
- slows up .
- made demands on ,
- makes demands on ,
- making demands on ,
- over tax ,
- over taxed ,
- over taxes ,
- over taxing ,
- over used ,
- over using ,
- over work ,
- over worked ,
- over working ,
- over works ,
- over-tax ,
- over-taxed ,
- over-taxes ,
- over-taxing ,
- over-used ,
- over-using ,
- over-work ,
- over-worked ,
- over-working ,
- over-works ,
- pressed hard on ,
- presses hard on ,
- pressing hard on ,
- puts pressure on ,
- putting pressure on ,
- weighed heavily on ,
- weighing heavily on ,
- weighs heavily on .
Other synonyms:
- overlay .
- weight .
Other relevant words:
- Bogged ,
- Bogging ,
- Buffaloes ,
- Debited ,
- Debiting ,
- Despotize ,
- Downs ,
- Entrammel ,
- Filibustering ,
- INCS ,
- Inc ,
- Intermeddle ,
- Intermeddling ,
- Intermitted ,
- Intermitting ,
- Loitered ,
- Manacled ,
- Manacling ,
- Muddy Waters ,
- Prolonging ,
- Prorogued ,
- Proroguing ,
- Remanded ,
- Remanding ,
- Saddling ,
- Shelving ,
- Snowed ,
- Snowing ,
- Stoppering ,
- abuse rights ,
- be set ,
- bear down on ,
- beat down ,
- bide time ,
- box up ,
- break in on ,
- bring to screeching halt ,
- buffalo ,
- buffaloed ,
- burden ,
- busybodied ,
- buy on credit ,
- buying on credit ,
- charge ,
- chime in ,
- choke off ,
- choked off ,
- choking off ,
- clog ,
- close off ,
- closed off ,
- closing off ,
- come uninvited ,
- confuse ,
- coop up ,
- cooped up ,
- cramp ,
- cramp one's style ,
- cramp style ,
- crash the gates ,
- cumber ,
- dabble in ,
- dam up ,
- delay ,
- dish it out ,
- downed ,
- downing ,
- drag feet ,
- drag one's feet ,
- dump on ,
- dumped on ,
- embroil ,
- encumber ,
- encumbered ,
- entrusting ,
- fetter ,
- fettered ,
- filibustered ,
- fool with ,
- gain time ,
- get in the way ,
- get to ,
- gets to ,
- getting to ,
- give it to ,
- give to ,
- giving to ,
- glut ,
- go into hock ,
- got to ,
- hamper ,
- handcuff ,
- handicap ,
- hang up ,
- held over ,
- hinder ,
- hobble ,
- hog-tie ,
- hogtie ,
- hold captive ,
- hold over ,
- impeded ,
- inced ,
- incur debt ,
- inhibits ,
- instilling ,
- interfere with ,
- interfered with ,
- interferes with ,
- interfering with ,
- interlope ,
- intermeddled ,
- intermeddles ,
- intermit ,
- jamming ,
- keep back ,
- keep down ,
- keeping back ,
- keeps back ,
- kept back ,
- kept down ,
- kibitz ,
- kibitzing ,
- lade ,
- lay ,
- lay over ,
- leash ,
- load ,
- lumber ,
- make demands on ,
- make heavy ,
- meddle ,
- mix in ,
- mixed in ,
- mucked ,
- mucking ,
- muddy the waters ,
- nick ,
- occlude ,
- oppress ,
- over-wrought ,
- overcharge ,
- overtax ,
- overtaxed ,
- overtaxes ,
- overtaxing ,
- overuse ,
- overuses ,
- overusing ,
- overwhelms ,
- perplex ,
- pervades ,
- pick on ,
- press hard on ,
- prorogue ,
- prorogues ,
- protract ,
- push in ,
- put off ,
- put on account ,
- put on one's card ,
- put on the cuff ,
- put on the tab ,
- put out of commission ,
- put pressure on ,
- put screws to ,
- put squeeze on ,
- put straitjacket on ,
- put the squeeze on ,
- put two cents in ,
- put upon ,
- receive credit ,
- remand ,
- remands ,
- retard ,
- retardate ,
- retardates ,
- run up ,
- runs up ,
- saddle with ,
- saddled ,
- saddled with ,
- sideline ,
- sidelined ,
- sidewalk-superintend ,
- slackens ,
- slow down ,
- slow up ,
- slowed down ,
- slowed up ,
- snow under ,
- snowed under ,
- stick it to ,
- stick nose in ,
- stick to ,
- sticks to ,
- stop up ,
- stopped up ,
- stoppered ,
- stops up ,
- stuck to ,
- taking out ,
- task ,
- tax ,
- throw monkey wrench in ,
- tie one's hands ,
- took out ,
- transfuse ,
- tyrranize ,
- weigh heavily on ,
- weigh heavy upon ,
- weighted ,
- weighting ,
- withhold ,
- withholds ,
- worm in ,
- zero in ,
- zeroed in .
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How to use "Encumber" in context?
Encumber is a verb meaning to bring down the amount, quality, or speed of something. Encumbering factors could be physical or mental, and can make it harder for something to happen or be done. Many things can encumber an activity, such as bureaucratic red tape, a large workload, or distractions. Sometimes encumbering factors are a result of other events, like a natural disaster. In any case, constructing or managing a project or endeavor can be more difficult when encumbered by these things.
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