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Hamper

noun

A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner). Synonyms: bond, shackle, trammel.

A basket usually with a cover.

verb

(past & past part. hampered; pres. part. hampering)

Prevent the progress or free movement of. Synonyms: cramp, halter, strangle. "The imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"

Put at a disadvantage. Synonyms: handicap, hinder.

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"Hamper" Quotes from Famous Books

... failed; but there was not much enthusiasm for the war, except at places like Birmingham, which possessed a small-arms manufactory and other stimulants to patriotic fervour. It was badly mismanaged by George, and Whigs did their best to hamper his efforts, fearing, with some reason, that success in North America would encourage despotic enterprise at home. George would, however, in all probability have won but for the intervention of France and Spain ...

— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard

... beautiful moonlight, through the still air, till all at once we found we had lost our way. We had to drive on till we came to an inn and we could make inquiries. There the gentlemen opened another hamper of wine, and when we set off again I promise you they were all pretty lively (and most of the ladies too, for the matter of that). As for me, who never drank anything but milk or water till six months ago, I have not learnt to like wine yet, so, though I sipped out of ...

— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle

... too bad that with all our tremendous progress we allow bigotry and prejudice to hamper us in getting the most out of the wisdom around us as well as that of the ages, all of which is correlated. Yet very often the orthodox Christian, who believes that Christ not only healed the sick but also raised the dead, decries the Christian Scientist who only professes ...

— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens

... and a well-developed infrastructure compared with other countries in the region. Almost all consumer and capital goods are imported, the US and Mexico being the major suppliers. Poor soils and inadequate water supplies hamper the ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... "That is really funny," she said. "You must have been reading Michelet; I never thought of that at all. I am very well and strong, and my habits and my clothes are not such as to hamper my life nor endanger that of another. There is next to no risk, so far as that is concerned, certainly none I would not gladly take. But I have dreaded afterwards, when the child might fall ill and need help that ...

— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith

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