affliction, burden of care, client, dependent, gall and wormwood, impedimenta, load, overload, pensioner, surcharge, woe
Definitionn. an onerous or difficult concern
Last update: October 4, 2015
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If it weren’t for the encumbrance of procrastination, I would be a productivity machine! [Please select]
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Although she had expected her little brother to be an encumbrance when her friends came over, she was pleased to see that they all enjoyed playing with him. [Please select]
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The general condition of the Italian railways has also affected it, and the increased traffic has not always found the necessary facilities in the way of a proper amount of trucks to receive the goods discharged, leading to considerable encumbrance of the port and consequent diversion of a certain amount of trade elsewhere, and besides this to serious temporary deficiencies in the coal supply of northern Italy. [Please select]
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I expected to see the Bee relinquish her mortar and then proceed to remove the encumbrance. [Please select]
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Then he stopped, backed, and tried to withdraw his head from the encumbrance which blinded him. [Please select]
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The latter seemed to Tarzan a most useless encumbrance, so he threw his away. [Please select]
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No good could be done to them by encumbrance with them. [Please select]
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Strange indeed that time should be an encumbrance to a sage. [Please select]
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I felt I was nothing but a nuisance and encumbrance. [Please select]
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"I wish the farm were free from encumbrance," said Frank. [Please select]
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He grew thin and slab-sided under the fret of it before he succeeded, by much nosing in gravel and sand, in wearing away the cartilage and rubbing his jaw clear of the encumbrance. [Please select]
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