hampering

Verb (1)

hamper (third-person singular simple present hampers, present participle hampering, simple past and past participle hampered)

1. (transitive) To put into a hamper.
   • Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts.

Verb (2)

hamper (third-person singular simple present hampers, present participle hampering, simple past and past participle hampered)

1. (transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle.
   • Near-synonym: hobble

   Synonyms:

   hobble

2. To impede in motion or progress.
   • Engend'ring heats, these one by one unbind, Stretch their small tubes, and hamper'd nerves unwind.1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem

   Synonyms:

   hinder, impair, disable, handicap, embarrass, encumber, cramp, cumber

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