What's the difference between encumber and unencumber?
Encumber
Definition:
(v. t.) To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.
(v. t.) To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
Example Sentences:
(1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(2) Genetic analyses of DNA restriction and modification mechanisms have been encumbered by the inability to rigorously select for mutant phenotypes associated with these systems.
(3) John Pugh, a former Lib Dem health spokesman, said: "There is no compelling reason why the NHS in England should be encumbered with this level of bean counting … the NHS should be like other more efficient public services run on simple best-value principles.
(4) Rather than conditions of respect and regard, lesbians report atmospheres of intimidation and humiliation, which encumber their interactions with health care providers.
(5) The drag coefficient was high compared with that of phocid seals examined during gliding or towing experiments, indicating an increased drag encumbered by actively swimming seals.
(6) These burdens all add to the cost of trade and therefore encumber economic growth in developing countries.
(7) Fibroses occurred frequently as a result, which to date encumber nerve adhesive.
(8) Distal osteotomies are encumbered by nonunion problems.
(9) This encumbers research on the psychoanalytic process.
(10) Often children are not discovered by teachers who are overwhelmed by large classes or encumbered with a complicated curriculum.
(11) By contrast, comparison of the time necessary to gain accurate control over individual PTNs from contralateral cortex showed the epileptic monkeys to be significantly encumbered when compared to nonepileptic monkeys.
(12) One major reason is perhaps that the Australian Labor leader is chosen by the party's MPs and not by the more cumbersome but wider democratic process that Labour chose for itself nearly 30 years ago, thus encumbering itself with an institutional inertia factor that hugely benefits incumbents.
(13) Different Therapy of Bromisoval Poisoning and Primary Detoxication by Gastrotomy or Duodenotomy: Bromisoval poisoning is encumbered with a high complication rate and mortality.
(14) Like many US enterprises seeking to push drone technology, Amazon has been encumbered by regulations introduced by the FAA in an attempt to prevent unpiloted drone aircraft from endangering passenger planes and denting America’s unparalleled global reputation for air safety.
(15) Its application in a kinematic gait-analysis system is demonstrated, employing minimally encumbering electrogoniometry and foot-contact switches.
(16) The measurement of microdosimetric distributions for the purpose of estimating the quality factor, Q, may be encumbered in pulsed radiation fields--as produced, for instance, by accelerators with low duty cycle--because of a signal pile-up.
(17) Occupations tend to be more of a factor in white males, where occupational choice is least encumbered, than in black males or in females.
(18) The polar head group of DOPA, being more negatively charged and sterically less encumbered than diester phosphate ligands, most probably was responsible for this adherence of the lipid bilayers to the crystal surfaces.
(19) It is suggested that in sick premature infants, when the head is encumbered by various types of apparatus, this technique might prove more feasible than HC measurement.
(20) Traditional manual reporting systems are encumbered by the necessity of transcription of test information onto hard copy reports and then the subsequent distribution of such reports into the hands of the user.
Unencumber
Definition:
(v. t.) To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
Example Sentences:
(1) An hydroxyl group in the 5 position of the indole nucleus, sterically unencumbered by hydroxyls in neighboing positions, is essential.
(2) This unencumbered view allows a more thorough removal of diseased tissue, especially in the posterior commissure and subglottis.
(3) • UK police forces and justice systems able to protect British citizens, unencumbered by unnecessary interference from the European institutions, including the European court of human rights .
(4) One hr following the competition test, each pair of animals was given access to a single unencumbered spout for a 1-hr period.
(5) Swimming does that, I say – I think it's because it speaks to something in us, something about who we intrinsically want to be – free, equal, unencumbered.
(6) Recording this variable with the apparatus employed permits measurement of changes in the level of ventilation while subjects are freely ambulant and unencumbered by invasive and flow-resistive respiratory apparatus.
(7) In a letter to the Guardian this week, Georgina Mace, professor of conservation science at Imperial College, London and Catherine Redgwell, professor of international law at UCL, said that investment in geo-engineering research had already begun and, "without international governance structures, schemes could soon be implemented unencumbered by the safeguards needed".
(8) Unencumbered by debts, all three amassed huge savings, almost all of it through 40 years of manufacturing prowess dating back to the 1950s.
(9) Saudi Arabia is very aware that Iran will be able to sell its crude unencumbered by sanctions on the international market very soon and will use all means at its disposal to make sure Iran doesn’t recapture the market share it lost over the past four years,” he said.
(10) In fact, its unencumbered design may make it more appropriate for advanced procedures than conventional systems.
(11) And, as soon as he could, he kicked over the traces; one of the most poignant moments in the memoir comes when a girlfriend gives him the choice of telling her more about himself, or the end of the relationship; he chooses the latter, and a future unencumbered by the past.
(12) Ovomucoid, which contains multiantennary complex structures at all glycosylation sites, may on the other hand display its glycans, unencumbered by the protein surface, in conformations similar to either the free glycans or the distal complexes observed in this work.
(13) I think there is a deformación profesional that affects a lot of them that makes it difficult for them to have an unencumbered relationship with the truth,” he said.
(14) The dumping of refugees in PNG is an outrage to morals, but it illustrates how unencumbered by conscience Rudd is to enact policy that secures electoral votes for power.
(15) The public good of freely accessible, unencumbered research generates more economic value for the public than the quick-hit sugar-rush you get from charging the public on the way in and again on the way out.
(16) They're not quite free of budgetary restrictions, perhaps, but they're unencumbered by local politics, and can cut and paste neighbourhoods, orchestrate traffic flows and command the weather.
(17) "An advantage the developing world has over the developed world is being unencumbered by aging infrastructure that needs to be rebuilt – a lot can be built from scratch, and built better."
(18) The results included a significant decrease in cadence (-6.3% of unencumbered walking; p less than 0.05) when comparing walking with surface electrodes with walking without any electrodes.
(19) The use of POL offers a system unencumbered by relatively high numbers of background foci which, when present, appear to be basically different from those found using the SRBC antigen.
(20) I hope my children feel unencumbered by any of the assumptions and biases left over from more prohibitive generations.