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encumbered

ɛn'kʌmbɝrd

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adjective
loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load
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"a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels" "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack" "an encumbered estate"

Similar:

burdened clogged heavy-laden involved loaded down mired mortgaged

Opposite:

unencumbered

Examples of encumbered

"a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"
"a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"
"an encumbered estate"