hamper's Usage Examples:

Directed by Peter Hyams, it starred Roy Schieder of Jaws fame, and (fortunately, in this viewer's opinion) lost much of the psychedelic mystical overtones that hampered the original movie.

He likes the house spotless and the hamper empty every day.

We must not suffer it to lead us into rhetoric about the deadness and the darkness of the middle ages, or hamper our inquiry with preconceived assumptions that the re-birth in question was in any true sense a return to the irrecoverable pagan past.

These were the two men who enmeshed the king in a web of Rosicrucian mystery and intrigue, which hampered whatever healthy development of his policy might have been possible, and led ultimately to disaster.

Baby cardigans, shrugs, and bolero-type sweaters can compliment a toddler sundress nicely without hampering the design of her dress.

champers Hampers - The Finest Hampers On The Net.

At one time the Bu Ragrag afforded a much better harbour than it does now; the roadstead is quite unprotected, and there is a dangerous bar at the mouth of the river, which hampers the shipping, and makes the growth of trade slow.

There is practically neither gold nor silver in circulation, and the value of the banknotes is so fluctuating that trade is seriously hampered.

Nor were any great difficulties with the Church to hamper the growth of this kingdom.

Mining is hampered by the lack of roads and by the want of machinery.

In a charge the infantry also might employ lance and dagger; but the essential point was that the archers should be mobile and their use of the bow unhampered.

When, therefore, Tromp was next sent to sea, it was with an unhampered fleet of war-ships, and for the purpose of bringing the English fleet to battle.

Synonyms:

halter, confine, limit, strangle, throttle, bound, cramp, restrict, trammel, restrain,

Antonyms:

derestrict, declassify, encourage, unbridle, enable,