encumbers
Loads with baggage
Encumbers means burdens or weighs down, making movement or progress difficult.
A hiker encumbered by a heavy pack moves slowly.
Legal or financial obligations encumber property, restricting what owners can do with it.
The word suggests hindrance rather than complete prevention: The treaty encumbers but doesn't prohibit development.
Encumbered often implies being loaded down with more than one can easily manage.
Makes heavier or slower
- loadsLarge quantities
- saddlesEquestrian seating equipment
- oppressesGoverns through harsh control
- overloadsExceeds safe capacity
taxes · strains · overwhelms · hampers · impedes · hobbles · bogs down · troubles
Obstructs or sections
- hindersCreates obstacles for
- obstructsBlocks or hinders
- impedesBlocks or delays
- restrictsPlaces limits upon
constrains · inhibits · limits · checks · curbs · ties up · holds back · slows
Legal claims on property
- mortgagesLoans secured by property
- claimsStatements of truth
- titlesNames of creative works
- debtsSums owed to others
easements · charges · attachments · obligations · liabilities · deeds · collateral · foreclosure
weighs down
Makes heavier or slower
overloads · taxes · strains · overwhelms · hampers · impedes · hobbles · bogs down · troubles · handicaps
blocks
Obstructs or sections
restricts · constrains · inhibits · limits · checks · curbs · ties up · holds back · slows · stalls
liens
Legal claims on property
debts · easements · charges · attachments · obligations · liabilities · deeds · collateral · foreclosure · creditors
bulky
Large and awkward to handle
heavy · weighty · ponderous · lumbering · ungainly · unmanageable · hefty · laden · loaded · packed
encumbersrelieves
Lessens or substitutes for
unburdens · eases · facilitates · lightens · disburdens
encumbersfrees
Removes from captivity
liberates · releases · unshackles · unfetters · disentangles
encumber, unencumbered, encumbered, encumbering, disencumber, disencumbered