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ENCUMBER

weigh down

The meaning of the word encumber is weigh down.

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genealogyan account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms
compulsivehaving power to compel
vagrantone who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support
parodya literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule
chaperona person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety
negligencethe quality or state of being negligent
natalnative
miscellanyseparate writings collected in one volume
supposititiousfraudulently substituted : spurious
staidmarked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober