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Adjective: encumbered  en'kúm-bu(r)d or in'kúm-bu(r)d
  1. Loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load
    "an encumbered estate"; "a summer resort … encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"
Verb: encumber  en'kúm-bu(r) or in'kúm-bu(r)
  1. Burden or impede with obstacles, obligations, or difficulties
    "The property was encumbered by debt";
    - cumber [archaic]
     
  2. Restrict or impair movement or progress by weighing down physically
    "The soldiers were encumbered by their heavy equipment";
    - cumber [archaic]

See also: burdened, clogged, heavy-laden, involved, loaded down, mired, mortgaged

Antonym: unencumbered