verb
definition
To put into a hamper.
example
Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts.
verb
noun
definition
That which hampers; an impediment.
Examples of hampering in a Sentence
The last thing you want is rain hampering your efforts.
Baby cardigans, shrugs, and bolero-type sweaters can compliment a toddler sundress nicely without hampering the design of her dress.
This inflammation swells the passageways, partially closing them down, further hampering the movement of mucus.
However, the 3,000-plus fans that showed up for the event needed to be handled by 35 police units and Island Records Vice President James Roppo was arrested for not hampering the demanding crowd quicker.
All Napoleon's efforts' to support his troops in Malta and Egypt were necessarily made under the hampering obligation to evade the British forces barring the road.
Besides, it was declared a free imperial port in 1719, and was therefore released from the obstructions to trade contained in the hampering legislation of the period.
At length Louis Philippe, anxious to free himself from the hampering control of the agents of his fortune, thought it safe to parade his want of confidence in the man who had made him king.
Hence the blast furnace process, thus freed from the hampering need of controlling accurately the silicon-content, can be much more effectively guided so as to prevent the sulphur from entering the pig iron.
Notwithstanding all the hampering conditions stated, the prosperity of the country became more manifest each succeeding year.
Cadorna was sceptical of an offensive in strength, and thought that the reported movements in the Trentino signified a limited attack, to be undertaken with the object of hampering his offensive towards the east.
Almost at the same date that visionary revival of the Western Empire, which had imposed for six centuries upon the imagination of medieval Europe, hampering Italy and impeding the consolidation of Germany, ceased to reckon among political actualities; while its more robust rival, the Roman Church, seemed likely to sink into the rank of a petty Italian principality.
The later years of her power were marked by the promotion of her old pupils, the children of the king and Mme de Montespan, to high dignity between the blood royal and the peers of the realm, and it was doubtless under the influence of her dislike for the duke of Orleans that the king drew up his will, leaving the personal care of his successor to the duke of Maine, and hampering the duke of Orleans by a council of regency.
Its efficiency as an instrument of producing revenue was, however, so great as to lead to its revival in 1842, when Sir Robert Peel inaugurated his great free-trade reform and swept away duties on exports, duties on imported raw material, and other imposts hampering the trade of the country.
But the popularity of four-wheel drive " sports utility vehicles " is hampering efforts to cut air pollution on Britain's roads.
Lubeck, however, supported by the Bruges counter, despite the disaffection and jealousy on all sides hampering and sometimes thwarting its efforts, stood steadfastly for union and the necessity of obedience to the decrees of the assemblies.
But the popularity of four-wheel drive " sports utility vehicles " is hampering efforts to cut air pollution on Britain 's roads.