verb, noun
verb [VN] [oftenpassive] (written) to prevent sb from easily doing or achieving sth
SYNHINDER:
Our efforts were severely hampered by a lack of money.
Part of speech: noun
1 a large basket with a lid, especially one used to carry food in:
a picnic hamper
2 (especially BrE) a box or parcel containing food, sent as a gift:
a Christmas hamper
3 (AmE) a large basket that you keep your dirty clothes in until they are washed
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hamper is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hamper a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hamper is tagged as noun.
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