unhampered
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unhampered (comparative more unhampered, superlative most unhampered)
- Not hampered.
- Synonyms: unencumbered, unimpeded; unqualified
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- "The he won't depart," I replied, and approached still nearer. Rough and narrow ledges formed by nature gave access to the upper caves. A man might scale them if unhampered and unhindered, but to clamber upward in the face of a belligerent tribe of half-men and with a girl to assist was beyond my capability.
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- The bare arms and thighs and unhampered breasts of young American womanhood are brushing contentedly against him.
Translations
[edit]not hampered
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