encumbered

(adjective, verb)

adjective

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

Similar word(s): burdened, clogged, involved, mired, mortgaged

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of encumber