Verb
The project was hampered by budget restraints.
Construction is hampering traffic on the highway.
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Verb
Briggs began slipping down the divisions, hampered by injuries, low confidence and a worsening struggle with mental health.—Ben Church, CNN, 19 June 2024 The younger James attended the University of Southern California as a freshman and was hampered by heart issues which required surgery before the season began.—Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 June 2024
Noun
Several customers have also used it as a hamper to hold dirty clothes.—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 16 June 2024 The book comes alive when Cusk turns to the mother-child relationship—a core preoccupation of hers—and transforms it into an all-encompassing theory of why identity hampers and hurts, a problem now of personhood itself as much as of the constraints that motherhood places on women.—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for hamper
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Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English
Noun
Middle English hamper, hanaper, literally, case to hold goblets, from Anglo-French hanaper, from hanap goblet, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hnæpp bowl
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