Verb
The project was hampered by budget restraints.
Construction is hampering traffic on the highway.
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What our clients most cited as the biggest constraints hampering development and dealmaking is approval timelines and permitting, narrowly ahead of construction costs and zoning restrictions.—
Lee Kiser,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2026 Williams has also not made good on its 2025 promise, which was hampered by its late start to winter testing.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
28 July 2026
Noun
Instead of tossing your dirty laundry onto the floor (or at the bottom of your closet), place one of these hampers in the same spot to corral them.—
Sian Babish,
PEOPLE,
2 Aug. 2026 Where other humble domestic objects—the dish brush, the soap dispenser, the hamper—have evolved into more stylish iterations with time, the toilet has remained untouched, resolutely white and clinical.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for hamper
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English
Noun
Middle English hamper, hanaper, literally, case to hold goblets, from Anglo-French hanaper, from hanap goblet, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hnæpp bowl
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