What is the meaning of encumbered?

verb

adjective

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