'Encumbered' definitions:
Definition of 'encumbered'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"- A.J.Liebling; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"; "an encumbered estate" [ant: unencumbered]
Definition of 'Encumbered'
From: GCIDE
- Encumber \En*cum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Encumbering.] [F. encombrer; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. combrer to hinder. See Cumber, and cf. Incumber.] [Written also incumber.]
- 1. To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning. [1913 Webster]
- Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To load with debts, or other legal claims; as, to encumber an estate with mortgages.
- Syn: To load; clog; oppress; overload; embarrass; perplex; hinder; retard; obstruct; check; block. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'encumbered'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- burdened,
- burdened with debt,
- charged,
- cumbered,
- deep in debt,
- embarrassed,
- fraught,
- freighted,
- hampered,
- in debt,
- in difficulties,
- in embarrassed circumstances,
- in hock,
- in the hole,
- in the red,
- indebted,
- involved,
- laden,
- loaded,
- mortgaged,
- oppressed,
- overburdened,
- overcharged,
- overfraught,
- overfreighted,
- overladen,
- overloaded,
- overtaxed,
- overweighted,
- plunged in debt,
- saddled,
- taxed,
- tied up,
- weighted,
- weighted down