Usually means: Obstructed or hindered in progress.
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  1. hampered: Merriam-Webster
  2. hampered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hampered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hampered, hampered: Wordnik
  5. hampered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hampered: Wiktionary
  7. Hampered, hampered: Dictionary.com
  8. hampered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hampered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Hampered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. hampered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. hampered: FreeDictionary.org
  13. hampered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hampered: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hampered: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hampered)

▸ adjective:  impeded or encumbered as if chained or fettered

Similar:
halter, shackle, trammel, hinder, handicap, bond, cramp, disadvantage, fettered, lumbered, more...

Opposite:
free, unfettered, unhampered

Types:
stymied, blocked, impeded, thwarted, frustrated, handicapped, obstructed, more...

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Similar:
halter, shackle, trammel, hinder, handicap, bond, cramp, disadvantage, fettered, lumbered, more...

Opposite:
free, unfettered, unhampered

Types:
stymied, blocked, impeded, thwarted, frustrated, handicapped, obstructed, more...



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