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

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  1. hampering: Legal dictionary

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  1. hampering: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hampering)

▸ noun:  That which hampers; an impediment.

Similar:
halter, shackle, trammel, hinder, handicap, bond, cramp, disadvantage, impediment, impedance, more...

Opposite:
facilitating, aiding, assisting, helping, promoting

Types:
obstruction, interference, impediment, hindrance, barrier, blockade, disruption, thwarting, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, such, serious, pitiless, consequent, possible, general, certain, constant, resultant

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Similar:
halter, shackle, trammel, hinder, handicap, bond, cramp, disadvantage, impediment, impedance, more...

Opposite:
facilitating, aiding, assisting, helping, promoting

Types:
obstruction, interference, impediment, hindrance, barrier, blockade, disruption, thwarting, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, such, serious, pitiless, consequent, possible, general, certain, constant, resultant



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