(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
If you are ~ed by something, it prevents you from moving freely or doing what you want.
Lead weights and air cylinders ~ed the divers as they walked to the shore...
It is still labouring under the debt burden that it was ~ed with in the 1980s.
= burden
VERB: V n, be V-ed with n
~ed
The rest of the world is less ~ed with legislation...
ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with/by n