See encumber in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To place a burden or heavy load on:
burden1, charge, cumber, freight, lade, load, saddle, tax, weight. See overTo interfere with the progress of:
bog (down), hinder, hold back, impede, obstruct. Idiom: get in the way of. See help, open
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