Synonyms: mortgaged
Definition: burdened with legal or financial obligations
Usage: his house, his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily mortgaged
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