hampered

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of hamper

Adjective

(comparative more hampered, superlative most hampered)

impeded or encumbered as if chained or fettered

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Escape was hampered by the fact that the window wouldn't open.
At the same time, Pericles was being sorely hampered by his adversaries at home.
An attack on the Army of the Ohio near Jonesboro concluded the Atlanta campaign, which left Sherman in control of Atlanta, but hampered by the necessity of preserving his communications with Chattanooga and weakened by a total loss of 30,000 men.
When I see that she is eager to tell me something, but is hampered because she does not know the words, I supply them and the necessary idioms, and we get along finely.
But the new system was unsuited to the Mahratta genius; it hampered the meteoric movements of the cavalry, which was obliged to manoeuvre in combination with the new artillery and the disciplined battalions.

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