| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To impede, obstruct, inhibit, prevent or balk.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To detain, retard or hold. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To clog, hobble or cumber. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To deter, interrupt, stop or stem. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To shackle, fetter or manacle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To thwart or frustrate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To bother, disturb, annoy, vex or irk. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To bar or block.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Present participle conjugation of the verb hamper.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hamper) | 1. Prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather".[Wordnet]. 2. Put at a disadvantage.[Wordnet]. 3. To put in a hamper.[Websters]. 4. To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: hampering, hampered, hampers, hamperer, hamperers, hamperingly and hamperedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being balking.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being annoying or vexing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being confusing, confounding or puzzling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being perplexing or mystifying. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being hinder. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being constraining or compelling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being irritating or offending.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HAMPERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1795. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HAMPERING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Shackling; entangling; perplexing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of hamper. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: hamper
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Ben Hamper | Ben Hamper is a Michigan-based author. He worked for General Motors in Michigan for several years and wrote for an alternative newspaper owned by Michael Moore. He is best known for his memoir Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (ISBN 0446515019), which chronicled his growing dissatisfaction while working on an automobile assembly line . (references) | ||
| Clothes hamper | A hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Food hamper | A hamper for packing and transporting food. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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| Hamper | 6 | Hamper | 6 | |
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