Synonyms:
shackle, bond, hamper, trammel
Meaning: a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
hamper, halter, cramp, strangle
Meaning: prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
Synonyms:
handicap, hinder, hamper
Meaning: put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"
Usage examples
It goes through the hamper, and gives a cheesy flavour to everything else there.
Mr. Tebrick drove with the hamper beside him on the front seat, and spoke to her gently very often.
He took down his precious hamper, unharnessed his two horses, covered them with rugs and gave them their corn.
He ran against the hamper at the head of the stairs, caught his cuff-link in it, and dropped the golf-stick with a crash.
Beyond him was an overturned hamper of soiled clothes, with stockings, collars, sheets and petticoats spilling out of it.
The next morning they locked up the house and they departed, having first secured Mrs. Tebrick in a large wicker hamper where she would be tolerably comfortable.
As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, 'Bad stuff, bad stuff.'
The sudden appearance of a hamper apparently on legs coming toward her, surprised her, but nothing like the queer thing that was rolling about her feet, and which she could not see for the big tray in her hands.
He knew that any living creature in a hamper, even if it be only an old fowl, always draws attention; there would be several loafers most likely who would notice that he had a fox with him, and even if he left the hamper in the cart the dogs at the inn would be sure to sniff out her scent.