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

1. Restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
   "His right to encumber the land, being a vested right, could not be taken away";
   - restrain, cumber [archaic]

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

Type of: bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel

Antonym: unencumbered