Meaning & use
Incumber
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To burden, hinder, or weigh down; an older spelling and variant of "encumber."
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Heavy debts continued to incumber the estate for years.
Old regulations still incumber the approval process today.
A note on using this word
"Incumber" is a chiefly archaic or British variant spelling of the far more common "encumber," and appears mostly in older texts.
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