Synonyms for hamper
ˈhæm pərham·per

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1. hamper

   To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.

   See synonyms for QUICKEN.

   Synonyms:
   baffle, balk, bar, block, check, clog, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, foil, frustrate, hinder, impede, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, retard, stay, stop, thwart

   Preposition:
   Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.

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1. hamper

   Synonyms:
   hinder

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1. shackle, bond, hamper, trammelnoun

   a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

   Synonyms:
   bail, bond certificate, bond paper, adherence, bail bond, chemical bond, shackle, adhesiveness, alliance, adhesion, trammel, bond, trammel net, attachment

2. hamperverb

   a basket usually with a cover

   Synonyms:
   shackle, trammel, bond

3. hamper, halter, cramp, strangleverb

   prevent the progress or free movement of

   "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"

   Synonyms:
   halter, smother, suffocate, choke, cramp, gag, stifle, strangle, throttle, repress, handicap, hinder, strangulate, muffle

4. handicap, hinder, hamperverb

   put at a disadvantage

   "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"

   Synonyms:
   impede, block, invalid, cramp, embarrass, stymy, stymie, incapacitate, strangle, halter, handicap, hinder, obstruct, blockade, disable

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1. hampernoun

   Synonyms:
   crate

2. hampernoun

   Synonyms:
   fetter, shackle, clog, chain

3. hamperverb

   Synonyms:
   shackle, fetter, entangle, clog, encumber, restrain, hinder, impede, clog

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1. hampernoun

   Synonyms:
   hanaper, shackle, fetter, restraint, impediment

2. hamperverb

   Synonyms:
   fetter, shackle, impede, restrain, hinder, encumber, embarrass

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1. List of paraphrases for "hamper":

   hinder, impede, obstruct, inhibit, impair, prevent, basket, interfere, constrain, undermine, disrupt, block

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How to use hamper in a sentence?

1. Katharine Whitehorn:

   Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

2. Abby Broyles:

   She asked me to come over. She asked me to bring some wine. We had wine and sushi and a couple of hours later, we were upstairs in their theater room watching a movie, for years I have struggled with stress and anxiety and insomnia. I took the bar exam on two hours of sleep.I mean, this is how far this goes back for me. And she knows that. And she gave me a medication I had never taken before. And I had an adverse reaction. Instead of helping me sleep, I hallucinated. And I don’t remember anything until I woke up or came to, and I was throwing up in a hamper.

3. Kevin McAleenan:

   I think the words matter a lot, if you alienate half of your audience by your use of terminology, it's going to hamper your ability to ever win an argument.

4. Carsten Fritsch:

   Fears that fighting in Iraq and Yemen could hamper the oil supply have clearly given way to a more sober appraisal, such concerns are exaggerated. In actual fact, the oil supply from the region has continued to grow.

5. Jon Radulovic:

   These discussions improve outcomes and do not hamper hope.