Encumber

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to impede or hinder; 

hamper; 

retard: Red tape encumbers all our attempts [at] action.  



2. to block up or fill with what is obstructive or superfluous: a mind encumbered with [trivial] and [useless] information.  

3. to burden or weigh down: She was encumbered with a [suitcase] and several [packages]. 

4. to burden with obligations, debt, etc.  

Also, incumber.





　

It was the 1998 release of Rushmore that radically altered Anderson’s life. He was hailed as a visionary, fetishized by his fans, encumbered by [expectations]. It was only his second movie—his first, Bottle Rocket, would become a cult favorite later in his career—but it offered everything an indie audience desired: an endearingly arrogant and peculiar teenage outsider (Schwartzman); 



a love triangle that was both twisted and innocent; and, of course, Bill Murray, in a surprising role as a wealthy, unhinged developer who, because he is Bill Murray, became an immediate icon of middle-aged angst. It also introduced to the world the Anderson aesthetic. Simply put, Rushmore did not look or feel like any other movie. 





deluge

lode

But she spends the following summer [sitting] 

on a mother [lode] of [rage] that will be [unleashed] in the film’s finale

cf. ode

cumbersome

Deluge 



quandary quagmire

slough stalemate



stagnation

My [mind] is stagnating from too much TV.  

When the [leading lady] left, the show started to stagnate.  

throttle

His message was throttled by [censorship].  

the Weinstein Co. has decided to [go full throttle] on securing a release date and mobilizing the marketing materials.

Stagnation