1. (

• restrain ,
• encumber ,
• cumber

) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult ;

1. (

• encumbered

) 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" ;