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: 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