Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb encumber

1 sense of encumber

Sense 1
restrain, encumber, cumber, constrain -- (hold back)
       => restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle -- (place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends")

Antonyms of adj encumbered

1 sense of encumbered

Sense 1
encumbered (vs. unencumbered) -- (loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"- A.J.Liebling; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"; "an encumbered estate")

unencumbered (vs. encumbered) -- (free of encumbrance; "inherited an unencumbered estate")
        => burdenless, unburdened -- (not encumbered with a physical burden or load)
        => clear, unmortgaged -- ((especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law; "I have clear title to this property")

Similarity of adj encumbered

1 sense of encumbered

Sense 1
encumbered (vs. unencumbered) -- (loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"- A.J.Liebling; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"; "an encumbered estate")
       => burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down -- (bearing a physically heavy weight or load; "tree limbs burdened with ice"; "a heavy-laden cart"; "loaded down with packages")
       => clogged -- (loaded with something that hinders motion; "The wings of birds were clogged with ice and snow"-Dryden)
       => involved, mired -- (entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion")
       => mortgaged -- (burdened with legal or financial obligations; "his house, his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily mortgaged")