Definition of "encumbering" [encumbering]

• Present participle of encumber. (verb)

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• "Our PCs ranged from halflings and humans in encumbering armor (Move +8) to barbarians and monks (Move +16)."
• "The whole thing has been a hideous blunder, and the idea of encumbering a force of four thousand men with something like thirty thousand camp followers, and with a train of no less than nineteen thousand bullocks, to say nothing of other draught animals, is the most preposterous thing I ever heard of."
• "Hodge knew Serjeant Gaythorn, and knew that the poor man's wife had been shot dead in the flight from Naseby; but he demurred at the notion of encumbering himself with the child when he went into the town."