encumbered

Meanings

Verb

• hold back
• simple past and past participle of encumber

Adjective

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

Adj

• Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.

Synonyms

constrain, cumber, encumber, restrain

Antonyms

unencumbered

Related Words

cumber, encumber