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Verb
Present participle for to impede the work or progress of
Present participle for to burden, load or encumber with
Present participle for to intrude, meddle, or trespass in others' affairs
Present participle for to inflict or impose, especially a charge or penalty
Present participle for to (excessively) exert for a particular task, purpose or goal
Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force
Present participle for to weaken or make feeble
Present participle for to assign a responsibility, duty, or task to
Present participle for to cause a mess or disarray in, typically by scattering items
Present participle for to make something more complex
Noun
The act of loading or filling a container, vehicle or vessel
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Present participle for to impede the work or progress of
hindering
impeding
hampering
obstructing
inhibiting
trammelling
trammeling
handicapping
cramping
stymieing
fettering
checking
restraining
shackling
blocking
hobbling
restricting
clogging
retarding
handcuffing
manacling
embarrassing
constraining
slowing
limiting
delaying
stalling
inconveniencing
disadvantaging
overloading
incommoding
bothering
charging
discommoding
oppressing
interfering with
holding back
holding up
hog-tying
short-circuiting
slowing down
tying up
hanging up
bogging down
getting in the way
saddling with
weighing down
making difficult
curbing
hamstringing
thwarting
frustrating
cumbering
baulking
UK
foiling
balking
US
preventing
crippling
bridling
barring
stopping
throwing a spanner in the works
borking
interrupting
arresting
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
confining
baffling
disrupting
stonewalling
crimping
tying
setting back
cramping one's style
derailing
standing in the way of
interfering
deterring
forestalling
putting a brake on
curtailing
prohibiting
getting in the way of
detaining
sabotaging
halting
entangling
keeping back
slowing up
cutting off
giving a hard time
staying
scuppering
repressing
sandbagging
crabbing
braking
holding
burdening
forbidding
shelving
binding
debarring
interdicting
choking
choking off
contravening
counteracting
putting off
shutting down
closing off
shutting off
stifling
decelerating
straitening
circumscribing
constricting
leashing
averting
fazing
discontinuing
spoiling
suspending
postponing
opposing
retardating
putting the kibosh on
deferring
chaining
tying down
precluding
withholding
intermitting
dragging your feet
putting at a disadvantage
placing at a disadvantage
holding down
putting an end to
dissuading from
putting back
taking down
backing off
bringing to screeching halt
weakening
entrammelling
entrammeling
controlling
regulating
impairing
sidelining
moderating
debilitating
putting straitjacket on
capping
catching
throwing monkey wrench in
capturing
enmeshing
ensnaring
netting
damming
rattling
discomfiting
freezing
tying someone's hands
snagging
warding off
tethering
disconcerting
subduing
delimiting
preventing from making progress
setting limits on
imposing limits on
bottlenecking
petering out
standing off
taking out
giving disadvantage
putting a crimp in
neutralizing
US
muzzling
ruining
overturning
putting out of commission
protracting
pausing
resisting
neutralising
UK
screwing up
fouling up
throttling
remitting
proroguing
tiing one's hands
nipping in the bud
hemming in
obscuring
screening
subverting
complicating
holding off on
staving off
prolonging
holding over
making late
narrowing down
keeping within the limits of
slackening
disempowering
lessening
shutting out
lousing up
boxing in
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
miring
scotching
monkeying with
bogging
suppressing
defeating
wronging
shaking
destabilizing
US
confounding
snookering
smothering
demoralizing
US
attenuating
puzzling
inflicting a handicap on
telling against
treating unfavourably
treating harshly
doing a disservice to
putting in an unfavourable position
treating unfairly
giving a disadvantage to
nonplussing
upsetting
mystifying
sapping
emasculating
reducing
stumping
flummoxing
undermining
botching
softening
challenging
destabilising
UK
demoralising
UK
cornering
pigeonholing
outlawing
letting up
enjoining
warding
dragging through the mud
queering the pitch of
clipping one's wings
putting paid to
poking full of holes
reining in
holding in
dead-ending
giving the run around
putting on hold
hanging fire
holding off
putting on back burner
throwing a monkey wrench into
keeping in
stemming the flow of
putting on brakes
containing
circumventing
taming
governing
keeping
countering
pulling in
putting a stop to
measuring
heading off
nullifying
ruling
keeping in check
avoiding
stemming
bottling up
ruling out
defending against
beating
keeping lid on
intercepting
keeping a tight rein on
putting the brakes on
forfending
dashing
diminishing
jamming
pegging
quieting
negating
evading
keeping under control
excluding
keeping a lid on
circumnavigating
choking back
obviating
fighting back
skirting
sidestepping
doing for
keeping the lid on
fending off
corking
steering clear of
cutting back
keeping within bounds
quelling
calming
cooling
banning
muffling
staunching
checkmating
swallowing
denying
tempering
terminating
fixing
discouraging
ceasing
disallowing
proscribing
barricading
refusing
closing
decreasing
modulating
outwitting
stunting
cutting short
blockading
occluding
putting the lid on
damping down
keeping waiting
quashing
estopping
gagging
biting back
setting
simmering down
stultifying
closing out
deflecting
putting the stopper on
putting a limit on
annulling
cancelling
UK
offsetting
canceling
US
bucking
bilking
jamming up
blocking up
stopping up
bunging up
throwing cold water on
keeping down
pouring cold water on
cutting down
putting half nelson on
sidetracking
managing
retaining
straitjacketing
getting out of
suffocating
clotting
causing to wait
causing to stay
escaping
bypassing
composing
disturbing
affecting
mitigating
influencing
tampering
laying off
confusing
corking up
shutting in
constipating
devitalizing
conflicting
troubling
forefending
crashing
unsettling
juking
wrecking
taking wind out of
ditching
easing
getting bogged down
interning
demarcating
crushing
disqualifying
strangulating
deflating
putting on ice
refusing to pay
gaining control over
gaining mastery over
strangling
overcoming
picking off
relieving
re-collecting
settling
mastering
bounding
disciplining
indisposing
diverting
monitoring
adjusting
taking out of play
putting the brakes on
disappointing
reining
anticipating
staving
depressing
quitting
immobilizing
US
mothballing
immobilising
UK
banjaxing
collecting
lagging
abating
licking
vetoing
squelching
plugging
lulling
inspecting
recovering
rallying
stilling
tranquilizing
US
making it impossible for
making it impracticable for
making impossible
embogging
reefing
loitering
qualifying
procrastinating
ending
keeping off
turning aside
keeping at bay
specifying
demarking
prescribing
sealing
caulking
delimitating
defining
girdling
making impracticable
repulsing
rebuffing
cooling off
cooling down
filling up
clogging up
closing up
filling
blocking out
toning down
turning off
tabooing
embargoing
buttoning up
keeping tight rein on
upsetting the applecart
putting a lid on
letting down flaps
winding down
losing steam
anchoring it
losing speed
hitting the brakes
keeping in line
putting a damper on
dashing one's hope
placing a limit on
holding in check
packing
stuffing
stanching
choking up
criminalizing
US
bringing to a stop
bringing to an end
slackening pace
drawing the line on
marking off
keeping within limits
tranquillising
UK
placing an embargo on
criminalising
UK
nixing
killing
zinging
putting down
locking up
making illegal
spiking
blocking off
bunging
bringing to a halt
bringing to a standstill
stoppering
congesting
bottling
plugging up
playing for time
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
cracking down on
stamping out
clamping down on
excepting
eliminating
blackballing
rejecting
ostracizing
US
cutting
ostracising
UK
exiling
overriding
shortening
trimming
truncating
abridging
freezing out
abbreviating
shrinking
contracting
docking
counting out
clipping
slashing
shutting out of
downsizing
cropping
lopping
chopping
eliding
syncopating
retrenching
minifying
boiling down
tightening up
rolling back
reining back
putting a restriction on
slimming down
paring down
breaking off
more ❯
“The huge weight that should
encumber
the use of police violence, especially lethal violence, against members of the public has been lessened.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to burden, load or encumber with
burdening
loading
saddling
lumbering
weighting
lading
overburdening
overloading
taxing
freighting
straining
overwhelming
overtaxing
oppressing
trammelling
trammeling
stressing
obstructing
retarding
weighing down
charging
hampering
cumbering
landing
imposing
saddling with
overcharging
overfilling
troubling
handicapping
inflicting
weighing
crushing
piling
imposing on
snowing
dumping on
snowing under
bearing down on
adding weight to
worrying
thrusting
dumping
tasking
topping
overstraining
exhausting
surcharging
thrusting something on
overstretching
ballasting
inflicting something on
fobbing something off on to
piling it on
making heavier
putting too much in
yoking
pushing to the limit
hindering
impeding
making heavy
imposing upon
pressing
preying on
pressing down
weighing upon
loading down
bearing down
holding down
pulling down
more ❯
“The supervisor warned us not to
encumber
ourselves with excessive tasks before the deadline.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to intrude, meddle, or trespass in others' affairs
interloping
intruding
interfering
obtruding
meddling
prying
messing
nosing
intermeddling
poking
snooping
encroaching
infringing
invading
trespassing
interposing
imposing
kibitzing
tampering
enquiring
UK
inquiring
molesting
butting in
mucking about
mucking around
horning in
barging in
mixing in
fooling with
sidewalk-superintending
crashing the gates
worming in
pushing in
sticking your nose in
chiming in
coming uninvited
dabbling in
messing around
putting your two cents in
breaking in on
intervening
gossiping
gossipping
messing with
muscling in
stirring the pot
thrusting oneself
putting your oar in
poking your nose in
meddling in
sticking your oar in
interrupting
nosing into
interfering in
encroaching on
intruding on
stepping in
cutting in
horning in on
bothering
interceding
stickybeaking
peeking
mousing
disturbing
gatecrashing
enquiring impertinently
poking around
poking about
poking one's nose into
getting involved
interfering with
muscling in on
imposing oneself on
entrenching on
sticking one's nose into
involving oneself
bugging
examining
inspecting
poking into
interjecting
nosing around
pestering
throwing a spanner in the works
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
insinuating oneself
interposing oneself
coming between
putting in two cents
putting in one's oar
breaking in
chiselling in
peering
bursting in
spying
peeping
impinging
intermediating
overstepping
infiltrating
creeping
doing some detective work
meddling with
worming
inching
disrupting
trenching
violating
entrenching
usurping
appropriating
crashing
arrogating
eating into
stepping on someone's toes
making inroads
treading on someone's toes
making inroads into
working in
squeezing in
elbowing in
imposing oneself
butting into
intervening in
kibitzing on
barging into
prying into
tampering with
impinging on
interceding in
getting involved in
intruding into
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to inflict or impose, especially a charge or penalty
laying
imposing
applying
charging
exacting
burdening
assessing
fining
inflicting
levying
placing
saddling
taxing
entrusting
putting
vesting
Verb
▲
Present participle for to (excessively) exert for a particular task, purpose or goal
straining
exerting
overworking
exhausting
extending
overtaxing
stretching
tiring
burdening
driving
overburdening
overexerting
overextending
overreaching
overtasking
taxing
charging
loading
pushing
racking
saddling
tasking
distending
fatiguing
knackering
lading
lumbering
overloading
tensing
testing
trying
weakening
weighing
wrenching
entrusting
tightening
wearying
wearing out
driving too far
exerting excessively
overdoing it
exerting to the limit
knocking oneself out
working too hard
making too many demands on
pushing to the limit
running yourself into the ground
working oneself into the ground
oppressing
weighting
draining
sapping
challenging
overstretching
enervating
emptying
pressuring
overusing
stressing
making demands on
putting a strain on
weighing heavily on
pushing too far
preying on
making heavy demands on
pressing hard on
putting pressure on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force
oppressing
subjugating
tyrannising
UK
tyrannizing
US
dominating
persecuting
maltreating
crushing
tormenting
subjecting
torturing
abusing
plaguing
harassing
enslaving
hegemonizing
wronging
harrying
hounding
coercing
besetting
exploiting
overthrowing
scourging
aggrieving
distressing
ruling
forcing
mastering
annoying
chastening
despotizing
handicapping
outraging
pressing
riding
saddling
straining
taxing
trampling
vexing
worrying
controlling
ill-treating
keeping down
treating harshly
holding sway over
grinding down
tyrannizing over
ruling over
holding down
beating down
trampling on
riding roughshod over
walking all over
trampling underfoot
picking on
putting upon
weighing heavy upon
putting screws to
ruling with a rod of iron
ruling with an iron hand
Verb
▲
Present participle for to weaken or make feeble
debilitating
weakening
devitalizing
enervating
enfeebling
prostrating
sapping
exhausting
incapacitating
impairing
indisposing
tiring
wearying
disabling
draining
etiolating
fatiguing
immobilising
UK
immobilizing
US
paralysing
UK
paralyzing
US
softening
undermining
wasting
attenuating
crippling
eviscerating
extenuating
hampering
harming
hindering
hurting
injuring
knackering
marring
torpefying
shattering
unstrengthening
wearing out
knocking out
laying low
making feeble
making weak
rendering infirm
doing in
putting out of action
confining to bed
confining to a wheelchair
Verb
▲
Present participle for to assign a responsibility, duty, or task to
entrusting
commissioning
authorising
UK
authorizing
US
delegating
assigning
charging
consigning
endowing
granting
trusting
investing
tasking
deputing
giving
saddling
taxing
burdening
devolving
vouchsafing
conferring on
bestowing on
vesting in
giving responsibility for
handing over
turning over
giving into the care of
giving into the charge of
giving into the custody of
putting into the hands of
enrolling
designating
committing
intrusting
ordaining
allotting
apportioning
appointing
appropriating
allocating
loading
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause a mess or disarray in, typically by scattering items
cluttering
disarranging
muddling
jumbling
snarling
messing up
making untidy
making a mess of
throwing into disorder
causing mess
making a shambles of
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make something more complex
perplexing
complicating
complexifying
entangling
sophisticating
complexing
muddying
embarrassing
tangling
jumbling
involving
ravelling
UK
raveling
US
mixing up
snarling up
muddying the waters
Noun
▲
The act of loading or filling a container, vehicle or vessel
lading
loading
filling
cumbering
packing
burdening
charging
storing
cramming
priming
readying
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