Home › Words › O › overencumberoverencumberoverencumber means to encumber excessively.EtymologyFrom over- + encumber.verbTo encumber excessively.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).