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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

... could do what she thought was better her work than his—the work to be done in the kitchen before the servants came home. By and by, Mr. Rhys came out of the study again, and found Eleanor sitting on the mat before a huge round hamper, uncovered, filled with Australian fruit. This was a late arrival, brought while he had been shut up at his work. Grapes and peaches and pears and apricots were crowded side by side in rich and beautiful abundance and confusion. Eleanor sat looking at it. She was in a working dress, of the brown ...

— The Old Helmet, Volume II • Susan Warner

... of any art. A mind can be inspired but not a body. It must be taught. You must first have a perfect instrument. Then, if you are a genius, your genius, having a perfect instrument to work with, will produce perfect results. To ignore or to neglect the mechanics of an art is to hamper or to kill inspiration. Geniuses—a few—and they not the greatest—have been too lazy to train their instruments. But anyone who is merely talented dares not take the risk. And you—we'd ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... the International Monetary Fund voted to forgive Ethiopia's debt to the body. Under Ethiopia's land tenure system, the government owns all land and provides long-term leases to the tenants; the system continues to hamper growth in the industrial sector as entrepreneurs are unable to use land as collateral for loans. Drought struck again late in 2002, leading to a 2% decline in GDP in 2003. Normal weather patterns helped agricultural and GDP ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... subject upon which Toy felt qualified to speak, since, after a cramped journey from Hong Kong, smuggled in his uncle's clothes hamper, he had started life in America at fourteen, carrying water to his countrymen placering in "Chiny" Gulch; after which he became one of a company who, with the industry of ants, built a trestle of green timber one hundred and fifty feet high to carry water to the Beaver Creek diggings ...

— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart

... expansion of the tourist sector, encourages visits by upscale, environmentally conscientious tourists. Detailed controls and uncertain policies in areas such as industrial licensing, trade, labor, and finance continue to hamper foreign investment. Hydropower exports to India had a major impact on ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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