hinder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪndə/
ipa: /ˈhɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hinders
form: hindering
form: hindered
form: hindered
form: hindre
Etymology: From Middle English hindren, from Old English hindrian, from Proto-Germanic *hindrōną, *hinderōną (“to hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *hinder (“back”) (adverb). Cognate with Dutch hinderen and German hindern, Latin contra (“back, against”).
Senses: examples: text: A drought hinders the growth of plants.
text: 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.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 75, column 2:
text: Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back – their defence comprising four centre-halves – and the lack of width was hindering their progress.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 – 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2018:
synonyms: delay
frustrate
hamper
impede
obstruct
prevent
thwart
antonyms: assist
expedite
facilitate
help
glosses: To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
examples: text: She hindered a man from committing suicide.
text: Then let me goe, and hinder not my courſe: [...]
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], page 28, column 1:
text: [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, [...]
ref: 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Who Heir?”, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC, book I, paragraph 142, pages 181–182:
synonyms: bar
block
delay
hamper
impede
obstruct
restrain
stop
antonyms: aid
assist
help
glosses: To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1947, Merle Travis, Tex Williams, “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”:
glosses: To cause harm.
Synonyms: word: behedge
word: blunt
word: delay
word: difficult
word: diminish
word: forestay
word: interfere
word: intervene
word: forslow
word: frustrate
word: get in the way
word: hamper
word: handicap
word: hinder
word: hold up
word: hurt
word: impair
word: impede
word: incommode
word: lessen
word: let
word: mar
word: obstruct
word: overslaugh
word: preclude
word: prevene
word: prevent
word: prohibit
word: reduce
word: restrict
word: retard
word: slow down
word: stay
word: stymie
word: thwart
word: thwarten
word: umbeset
word: undermine
word: weaken
word: worsen
Hyponyms: word: complicate
word: shut out
word: spoil
Derived terms: hinderable
hinderance
hinderer
hinderment
hindersome
hindrance
unhinder
unhindered
Related terms: word: abligate
word: bar
word: block
word: cap
word: counteract
word: cumber
word: detain
word: encumber
word: filibuster
word: forestall
word: hold back
word: keep back
word: inhibit
word: put on ice
word: roadblock
word: stall
word: stem
word: stop
word: suspend
word: underfoot
word: withstrain
word: hindrance