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.

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   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. Mikaela Weisse:

   Restrictions on mobility and looming budget cuts as a result of the economic fallout from the global pandemic may hamper efforts to enforce anti-deforestation laws.

2. President Vladimir Putin:

   It is true that the two countries have different views on the ways to resolve the crisis in Syria. But the important thing is ... we both stand for settling the situation in the region and effectively combating terrorism, with this in mind, the existing differences should not hamper our bilateral relations.

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. Mackenzie Kelly:

   I believe that any attempt by Austin to restrict, regulate, or hamper the sales of firearms does violate state preemption laws. And that violation of the preemption law risks a lawsuit from the attorney general, which I think is a needless waste of taxpayer resources.

5. Albert Einstein:

   By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.