Synonyms for Encumber:

• n.

  •
  • let down,
  • disadvantage,
  • plague,
  • bring up against,
  • count against.
  •
  • pin,
  • pin down,
  • immobilize,
  • intercept,
  • trap,
  • over.
  •bog down (noun)
  • bog.
  •burden (noun)
  • weigh down.
  •constrain (noun)
  • constrain.
  •encumber (noun)
  • restrain.

• v.

  •burden (verb)
  • crush,
  • overwhelm,
  • depress,
  • trouble,
  • obligate,
  • try,
  • worry,
  • dish out,
  • bother,
  • afflict,
  • press,
  • pile,
  • strain,
  • vex.
  •charge (verb)
  • entrust,
  • cuff,
  • fill,
  • weigh,
  • permeate,
  • pack,
  • penetrate,
  • commit,
  • cram,
  • paste,
  • crowd,
  • chalk up,
  • saturate,
  • impregnate,
  • debit,
  • book,
  • suffuse,
  • heap,
  • choke,
  • instill,
  • pervade,
  • ram.
  •clog (verb)
  • curb,
  • plug,
  • shackle,
  • stopper,
  • seal,
  • stuff,
  • jam,
  • tie,
  • close,
  • congest.
  •confuse (verb)
  • involve,
  • intermingle,
  • litter,
  • disarrange,
  • mingle,
  • clutter,
  • disorganize,
  • mistake,
  • tousle,
  • bedlamize,
  • tangle,
  • rumple,
  • snarl up,
  • muddle,
  • blend,
  • confound,
  • entangle,
  • disorder,
  • discombobulate,
  • tumble,
  • jumble,
  • muss up,
  • disarray,
  • discreate.
  •cramp (verb)
  • circumscribe,
  • limit,
  • fasten,
  • inhibit,
  • grip,
  • check,
  • clasp,
  • clamp,
  • hamstring,
  • stymie,
  • confine,
  • object,
  • restrict,
  • bottle up,
  • thwart.
  •delay (verb)
  • discourage,
  • shelve,
  • defer,
  • linger,
  • lag,
  • postpone,
  • prolong,
  • stall,
  • loiter,
  • prevent,
  • detain,
  • arrest,
  • slacken,
  • interfere,
  • adjourn,
  • hold,
  • bar,
  • dilly-dally,
  • deter,
  • repress,
  • dawdle,
  • table,
  • filibuster,
  • temporize,
  • stay,
  • suspend,
  • keep,
  • procrastinate,
  • drag,
  • stave off,
  • tarry.
  •embroil (verb)
  • disunite,
  • cause trouble,
  • ensnare,
  • derange,
  • disturb,
  • mix up,
  • compromise,
  • enmesh,
  • mire,
  • implicate,
  • snarl,
  • incriminate.
  •encumber (verb)
  • hold up,
  • make difficult,
  • incommode,
  • discommode,
  • embarrass,
  • trammel,
  • block,
  • impede,
  • overburden,
  • inconvenience,
  • overload,
  • obstruct.
  •fetter (verb)
  • manacle,
  • bind,
  • chain.
  •hamper (verb)
  • dragged one feet,
  • cramped one style,
  • gotten in way,
  • drag ones feet,
  • in-convenience,
  • cramps one's style,
  • get the way,
  • gat in the way,
  • ties one hands,
  • dragged ones feet,
  • cramps ones style,
  • slowing down,
  • in conveniences,
  • tie ones hands,
  • got in the way,
  • tie hands,
  • get in way,
  • cramps one style,
  • tie one hands,
  • dragging one feet,
  • gat in way,
  • gets the way,
  • gets in the way,
  • ties ones hands,
  • got the way,
  • tying ones hands,
  • gotten the way,
  • dragged one's feet,
  • cramp one style,
  • got in way,
  • getting way,
  • got way,
  • tying one's hands,
  • drags ones feet,
  • cramping one style,
  • getting in the way,
  • slows down,
  • getting the way,
  • gat the way,
  • dragging one's feet,
  • tied one hands,
  • dragging ones feet,
  • cramped ones style,
  • cramped style,
  • gets way,
  • cramping ones style,
  • gets in way,
  • cramping one's style,
  • ties one's hands,
  • get way,
  • drag one feet,
  • tied ones hands,
  • gotten in the way,
  • cramp ones style,
  • cramping style,
  • tied hands,
  • ties hands,
  • in-conveniences,
  • drags one feet,
  • drags one's feet,
  • getting in way,
  • gat way,
  • cramped one's style,
  • tying hands,
  • tied one's hands,
  • tying one hands,
  • cramps style,
  • gotten way.
  •handcuff (verb)
  • incing.
  •handicap (verb)
  • putting out commission,
  • putting out of commission,
  • put out commission,
  • puts out commission,
  • sidelining,
  • puts out of commission.
  •hinder (verb)
  • complicate,
  • impair,
  • frustrate,
  • snag,
  • catch,
  • brake,
  • foul,
  • oppose,
  • interrupt,
  • bung,
  • baffle,
  • stop,
  • crimp,
  • entrap,
  • paralyze,
  • counter,
  • bottleneck,
  • resist,
  • constipate,
  • dam,
  • cripple.
  •hog-tie (verb)
  • hog tie.
  •interlope (verb)
  • inter-lopes,
  • inter-loped,
  • inter-loping,
  • inter lopes,
  • inter loped,
  • inter-lope,
  • inter loping,
  • inter lope.
  •lay (verb)
  • in-clines,
  • zeroing in,
  • in cline,
  • in clines,
  • zeroes in,
  • in-cline.
  •lumber (verb)
  • imposed up on,
  • impose up on,
  • imposes up on,
  • imposing up on,
  • imposing upon.
  •meddle (verb)
  • crashes gates,
  • kibitzes,
  • crash gates,
  • comes uninvited,
  • abuses rights,
  • broke in on,
  • sidewalksuperintends,
  • broke on,
  • crashing the gates,
  • abused rights,
  • kibitzed,
  • stuck nose in,
  • in-fringe,
  • sidewalksuperintended,
  • in quired,
  • dabbles in,
  • chimed in,
  • in-quired,
  • came uninvited,
  • crashing gates,
  • sidewalk-superintending,
  • inter-meddling,
  • breaking on,
  • in quiring,
  • in fringes,
  • inter-posed,
  • sidewalk-superintends,
  • fools with,
  • in-quiring,
  • worming in,
  • inter pose,
  • pushes in,
  • pushed in,
  • wormed in,
  • break on,
  • breaks on,
  • sticks nose in,
  • in-quire,
  • breaks in on,
  • sidewalk-superintended,
  • inter-pose,
  • worms in,
  • inter meddles,
  • mixes in,
  • in fringe,
  • inter meddled,
  • inter-meddles,
  • mixt in,
  • dabbling in,
  • inter meddling,
  • sidewalksuperintend,
  • dabbled in,
  • sticking nose in,
  • chimes in,
  • sidewalk superintends,
  • in quires,
  • inter posed,
  • crashed gates,
  • crashed the gates,
  • mixing in,
  • sidewalk superintend,
  • coming uninvited,
  • pushing in,
  • abusing rights,
  • sidewalk superintended,
  • in-fringes,
  • brake on,
  • fooling with,
  • sidewalk superintending,
  • breaking in on,
  • fooled with,
  • chiming in,
  • crashes the gates,
  • inter-posing,
  • in-quires,
  • inter meddle,
  • inter-meddle,
  • in fringed,
  • sidewalksuperintending,
  • sticked nose in,
  • putting two cents in,
  • inter posing,
  • brake in on,
  • busybodying,
  • in-fringed,
  • in quire,
  • puts two cents in,
  • inter-meddled.
  •oppress (verb)
  • dis-tressed,
  • beats down,
  • put up on,
  • dis-tress,
  • puts upon,
  • dis-hearten,
  • over powering,
  • out-raging,
  • weighing heavy up on,
  • keeping down,
  • dis-heartened,
  • despotized,
  • puts the squeeze on,
  • tyrranized,
  • over-powering,
  • putting upon,
  • over powered,
  • dis tresses,
  • sub jugate,
  • keeps down,
  • over come,
  • over thrown,
  • over throw,
  • weighs heavy up on,
  • over-throwing,
  • putting up on,
  • puts screws to,
  • dis-tresses,
  • despotizes,
  • over-throw,
  • over-powered,
  • over-thrown,
  • putting squeeze on,
  • out-rages,
  • dis heartening,
  • over-comes,
  • putting the squeeze on,
  • over-power,
  • over comes,
  • out raged,
  • tyrranizing,
  • out rages,
  • dis hearten,
  • dis heartened,
  • over throws,
  • dis tress,
  • over throwing,
  • dis heartens,
  • weighing heavy upon,
  • over powers,
  • dis-heartens,
  • weighed heavy up on,
  • over-throws,
  • beating down,
  • dis tressed,
  • tyrranizes,
  • weighed heavy upon,
  • putting screws to,
  • out-rage,
  • out-raged,
  • over-coming,
  • over coming,
  • despotizing,
  • weighs heavy upon,
  • weigh heavy up on,
  • puts up on,
  • dis-heartening,
  • puts squeeze on.
  •overburden (verb)
  • over burden,
  • over-burdened,
  • over burdening,
  • over-burdens,
  • over burdened,
  • over-burdening,
  • over burdens.
  •overload (verb)
  • over load,
  • over-loads,
  • over-loaded,
  • over loads,
  • over loading,
  • over-load,
  • over-loading,
  • over loaded.
  •penalize (verb)
  • deduct,
  • discipline,
  • abate,
  • drawback,
  • correct,
  • forfeit,
  • discount,
  • judge,
  • Retribute,
  • penalize,
  • chastise,
  • fine,
  • punish.
  •perplex (verb)
  • be-fuddled,
  • buffaloing,
  • dis composes,
  • dis-composes,
  • sur-prised,
  • muddies the waters,
  • be fuddle,
  • gat to,
  • sur prise,
  • be fuddles,
  • sur-prises,
  • be-setting,
  • dis composing,
  • be-fuddling,
  • dis compose,
  • muddying the waters,
  • be-fuddles,
  • be-wildering,
  • sur-prising,
  • sur-prise,
  • be-fuddle,
  • sur prises,
  • be wilder,
  • muddied the waters,
  • dis-compose,
  • sur prising,
  • be sets,
  • be fuddling,
  • dis composed,
  • be-sets,
  • be wildering,
  • be wilders,
  • muddying waters,
  • be-wildered,
  • be-wilder,
  • muddied waters,
  • be-set,
  • be setting,
  • dis-composing,
  • be wildered,
  • muddies waters,
  • be fuddled,
  • be-wilders,
  • dis-composed,
  • gotten to.
  •retard (verb)
  • de creases,
  • de-creases,
  • slowing up,
  • bringing to screeching halt,
  • closes off,
  • bringing screeching halt,
  • re duces,
  • brought screeching halt,
  • re duce,
  • de-crease,
  • de crease,
  • brings screeching halt,
  • brings to screeching halt,
  • bring screeching halt,
  • re-duces,
  • de-creased,
  • de creasing,
  • de creased,
  • chokes off,
  • de-creasing,
  • retardated,
  • slows up,
  • re-duce,
  • brought to screeching halt,
  • retardating.
  •tax (verb)
  • over work,
  • pressed hard on,
  • over taxes,
  • over-taxing,
  • over-taxes,
  • over-using,
  • over-working,
  • pressing hard on,
  • over-used,
  • over-work,
  • over taxing,
  • makes demands on,
  • presses hard on,
  • over-tax,
  • made demands on,
  • over works,
  • making demands on,
  • over using,
  • over used,
  • over-works,
  • over tax,
  • weighing heavily on,
  • over working,
  • over taxed,
  • putting pressure on,
  • weighed heavily on,
  • over-taxed,
  • over-worked,
  • over worked,
  • puts pressure on,
  • weighs heavily on.
  •transfuse (verb)
  • trans-fusing,
  • trans-fuses,
  • trans-fuse,
  • trans fuses,
  • trans fused,
  • trans fusing,
  • trans-fused,
  • trans fuse.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • overlay.
  •
  • freight,
  • saddle.
  •
  • weight.
  •confuse
  • Disarraying,
  • disarrayed,
  • Littering,
  • mussed up,
  • snarled up.
  •embroil
  • embroiled,
  • enmeshed,
  • causing trouble,
  • ensnared.
  •hinder
  • bottlenecking,
  • boxes in,
  • box in,
  • hinders,
  • snafued,
  • bottlenecked.
  •lade
  • Freighted,
  • Freighting.
  •lumber
  • imposes upon,
  • impose upon,
  • imposed upon.
  •overburden
  • overburdened,
  • over-burden.

Paraphrases for Encumber:

• Independent

  • Verb, base form
    hinder, strain, endanger, jeopardize, pledge, jeopardise, undermine, commit, tax, impose.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    burden, entrust.

Antonyms for Encumber:

• v.

  • bother, burden
    encourage, gladden, exonerate, promote, forward, push, unburden, facilitate, boost, benefit, permit, make happy, please, support.
  • burden
    relieve.
  • charge
    pay cash, pay by check.
  • clog
    open, free, unclog, Unstop, unblock, clear, Unencumber.
  • confuse
    separate, order, organize.
  • cramp
    release, allow, let go.
  • delay
    speed, rush, hasten, expedite, dispatch, further, hurry, advance.
  • embroil
    exclude, uncomplicate.
  • encumber
    help, aid, assist.
  • fetter
    loose, loosen.
  • Other antonyms:
    Unlade, unload, smooth, alleviate, lighten, untie, make way, discharge, ease.