encumbered (Adjective) — Loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load. ex. "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels" ex. "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack" ex. "an encumbered estate"
encumbered (Verb) — Limit or hold back; keep within a small range. ex. "His right to encumber the land, being a vested right, could not be taken away"