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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

overencumber en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + encumber.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To encumber excessively.
    • But so as not to overencumber the narrative, I have addressed a number of important issues of interpretation in the notes to the chapters that constitute Part I. 1987, Laurence Winant Dickey, Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of Spirit, 1770-1807, page xiii:

Forms

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overencumbered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overencumbered Tense=Past lexicographic
overencumbering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overencumbers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

overburden · overload