Synonyms of the word

hamper

• n. A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals;…
• v. (transitive) To put into a hamper.
• v. (transitive) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion…
• n. A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
• n. (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.

basket

• n. A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
• n. A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a…
• n. In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.
• n. (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players…
• n. (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
• n. The game of basketball.
• n. A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the…
• n. (Britain, slang) A manbulge.
• n. (obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.
• n. (archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.
• n. (ballooning) Where the pilot and passengers are.
• n. (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
• v. To place in a basket or in baskets.

bond

• n. (law) Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest…
• n. (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
• n. A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural.
• n. An emotional link, connection or union.
• n. Moral or political duty or obligation.
• n. (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
• n. A binding agreement, a covenant.
• n. A bail bond.
• n. Any constraining or cementing force or material.
• n. (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.
• n. In Scotland, a mortgage.
• n. (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used…
• v. (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
• v. (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
• v. (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
• v. To form a friendship or emotional connection.
• v. (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse.
• v. (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
• v. (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces…
• v. To bail out by means of a bail bond.
• n. A peasant; churl.
• n. A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
• adj. Subject to the tenure called bondage.
• adj. In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
• adj. Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

constraint

• n. Something that constrains; a restriction.
• n. (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
• n. (databases) A method that maintains database integrity.

cramp

• n. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
• n. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
• n. A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
• n. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper…
• v. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
• v. (transitive) To prohibit movement or expression.
• v. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
• v. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
• v. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
• v. To form on a cramp.

disadvantage

• n. A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
• n. A setback or handicap.
• n. Loss; detriment; hindrance.
• v. (transitive) To place at a disadvantage.

disfavor

• n. US spelling of disfavour.
• v. US spelling of disfavour.

disfavour

• n. The state of being out of favour.
• n. An unkindness; a disobliging act.
• v. To show lack of favour or antipathy towards.

halter

• n. A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead…
• n. A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
• n. A woman's garment covering the upper chest, a halter top.
• v. (transitive) To place a halter on.
• n. One who halts or limps; a cripple.

handbasket

• n. A basket with a handle.

handicap

• n. Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
• n. An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest…
• n. (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages…
• n. A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage,…
• n. (obsolete, card game) An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To place at disadvantage.
• v. To estimate betting odds.

hinder

• v. (transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.
• v. (transitive) To keep back; to delay or impede; to prevent.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause harm.
• adj. Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.
• adj. comparative form of hind: more hind.
• n. (slang, euphemistic) The buttocks.

limit

• n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
• n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
• n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
• adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
• v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

restrain

• v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
• v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

restraint

• n. (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures.
• n. (uncountable) control or caution; reserve.

restrict

• v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.
• v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
• adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

shackle

• n. A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger. Usually used in plural,…
• n. A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured…
• n. (figuratively, usually in the plural) A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
• n. A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
• n. A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
• n. Stubble.
• v. To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
• v. By extension, to render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of someone or something.

strangle

• v. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate…
• v. (transitive) To stifle or suppress an action.
• v. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
• v. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

throttle

• n. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls…
• n. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
• n. The windpipe or trachea.
• v. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
• v. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
• v. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

trammel

• n. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
• n. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle.
• n. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
• n. A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang…
• n. A net for confining a woman's hair.
• n. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.
• n. (engineering) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves…
• n. A beam compass.
• v. To entangle, as in a net.
• v. (transitive) To confine; to hamper; to shackle.