Encumbered

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  encumbered
       adj : 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "encumbered":
     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