Synonyms: encumbered
Definition: loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load
Usage: a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels- A.J.Liebling; a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack; an encumbered estate
Similar words: heavy-laden, loaded down, burdened
Definition: bearing a physically heavy weight or load
Usage: tree limbs burdened with ice; a heavy-laden cart; loaded down with packages
Similar words: clogged
Definition: loaded with something that hinders motion
Usage: The wings of birds were clogged with ice and snow-Dryden
Similar words: mired, involved
Definition: entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
Usage: the difficulties in which the question is involved; brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
Similar words: mortgaged
Definition: burdened with legal or financial obligations
Usage: his house, his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily mortgaged