Synonyms of hobbling

hobbling

verb

present participle of hobble

1

as in hampering

to create difficulty for the work or activity of

we were hobbled by the snowstorm from getting out to do some Christmas shopping

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hampering
• impeding
• hindering
• embarrassing
• obstructing
• handicapping
• blocking
• cramping
• delaying
• inhibiting
• stymieing
• shackling
• handcuffing
• encumbering
• clogging
• disrupting
• restraining
• interfering (with)
• fettering
• constraining
• tying
• holding back
• tying up
• thwarting
• trammeling
• hog-tying
• frustrating
• short-circuiting
• balking
• reining
• checking
• manacling
• curbing
• stifling
• binding
• retarding
• strangling
• giving a hard time
• retaining
• choking
• tethering
• cramping one's style
• braking
• holding up
• chaining
• barricading
• blockading
• haltering
• arresting
• confining
• sabotaging
• leashing
• stumping
• baffling
• derailing
• smothering
• suffocating
• miring
• bogging (down)
• roadblocking
• foiling
• repressing
• muzzling
• suppressing
• hedging (in)
• hemming (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• helping
• assisting
• aiding
• facilitating
• opening
• clearing
• freeing
• releasing
• liberating
• promoting
• encouraging
• unplugging
• loosening
• unstopping
• smoothing
• untying
• unclogging
• making way
• furthering

2

as in limping

to walk while favoring one leg

I hobbled home with a twisted ankle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• limping
• halting
• shuffling
• stumbling
• faltering
• tottering
• shambling
• lurching
• staggering
• floundering
• blundering
• wavering
• hitching
• wobbling
• teetering
• doddering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• striding
• sailing
• gliding
• breezing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hobbling

The Republican candidate has been hobbling through the race, with lackluster fundraising and a long history of personal and legal scandals casting a pall over his candidacy. — Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026

More than doubling the cost of the latest iPhone might risk pricing out customers and hobbling Apple’s ubiquity, analysts suggested. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026

The biggest concern for LSU's defense was the sight of linebacker Whit Weeks hobbling to the locker room in a walking boot after an apparent ankle injury. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

Judge could be seen grimacing on a check swing during the third inning and hobbling in the outfield during the fifth inning. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026

Galapagos tortoises live so long that one of them hobbling around today could have encountered Charles Darwin in 1835. — Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026

Ohtani was seen shaking out his arm between swings and hobbling off and on for months. — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Brendan McDermid | Reuters A Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank’s flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI’s spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers. — Hugh Son, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026

Gelof, already on the ground, immediately grabbed his knee in pain before hobbling back to his position. — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026