encumbered Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb hold back
    encumber; constrain; restrain; cumber.
  2. 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

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