HAMPERS Synonyms

• cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult

• take or catch as if in a snare or trap

• catch in or as if in a trap

• influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

• United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)

• an electrical force linking atoms

• British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

• a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal

• a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest

• (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial

• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

• a connection that fastens things together

• a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents

• the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

• stick to firmly

• create social or emotional ties

• issue bonds on

• bring together in a common cause or emotion

• a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

• a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued

• a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together

• secure with a cramp

• prevent the progress or free movement of

• affect with or as if with a cramp

• suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle

• rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading

• a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging

• a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered

• either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight

• hang with a halter

• prevent the progress or free movement of

• the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness

• advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning

• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

• injure permanently

• attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant

• put at a disadvantage

• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

• a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar

• bind the arms of

• restrain with fetters

• kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air

• suppress in order to conceal or hide

• die from strangulation

• prevent the progress or free movement of

• constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

• struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

• a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh

• an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace

• a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble

• a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

• catch in or as if in a trap

• place limits on (extent or amount or access)