Hinder

/ˈhɪndəː/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
2. (ambitransitive) To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause harm.
4. Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.
5. comparative form of hind: more hind
6. (slang, euphemistic) The buttocks.

Example Sentences

A drought hinders the growth of plants.

We doubt not of a faire and luckie Warre, / Since God ſo graciouſly hath brought to light / This dangerous Treaſon, lurking in our way, / To hinder our beginnings.

Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back – their defence comprising four centre-halves – and the lack of width was hindering their progress.

She hindered a man from committing suicide.

Then let me goe, and hinder not my courſe: [...]

[I]f in thoſe days Cham and Japhet, and other Parents beſides the Eldest Son were Heads and Princes over their Families, and had a right to divide the Earth by Families, what hinders Younger Brothers, being Fathers of Families from having the ſame right, [...]

If me and a certain character met, the guy that invented the cigarette, I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree. Now it ain't 'cause that I don't smoke myself and I don't reckon they hinder your health. I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet.

the hinder end of a wagon

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• hinders
• hindering
• hindered
• hindre

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