What does hamper mean in English?

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hamper Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to prevent someone doing something easily:
- Fierce storms have been hampering rescue efforts and there is now little chance of finding more survivors.
1 a large, rectangular container with a lid:
- a picnic hamper
2 to make an action intended to achieve something more difficult:
- High winds hampered efforts to put out the fire.
3 a large container, often a basket (= container made of strips of wood), with a lid:
- a laundry/picnic hamper

The lack of records and sufficient tracking for antiquities also hampers efforts to control the problem.
Our data are consistent with the notion that infant visual sensitivity is hampered by high levels of noise in the central visual pathways.
Understanding why, however, has been hampered by difficulties with the sources.
They are, however, hampered by the measurement errors that cloud the signals in observed variables.
Beyond this, such institutional features contributed to disputes among church members, thereby hampering the overall efficacy of the organisations.
A second problem is that such representations will hamper the variable phonological encoding the model must allow for.
The study of linguistic change has always been hampered by the dearth of appropriate real-time data reflecting earlier stages.
The application of qualitative simulation to real-world problems has revealed some fundamental problems hampering existing methods.