hinder
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: hinders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hindering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hindered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hindered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hindre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: hindre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: hinders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hindre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 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, [...]
gloss: To cause harm.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the hinder end of a wagon
the hinder parts of a horse
Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end.
On a line dividing the front two-thirds from the hinder one-third, and set in the shape of a V, is a row of seven to twelve large flat-topped circumvallate papillae, […]
gloss: The buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
examples: Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder.
Synonyms: behedge
blunt
crimp
delay
difficult
diminish
forestay
interfere
intervene
forslow
frustrate
get in the way
hamper
handicap
hinder
hold up
hurt
impair
impede
incommode
lessen
let
mar
obstruct
overslaugh
preclude
prevene
prevent
prohibit
reduce
restrict
retard
slow down
stay
stymie
thwart
thwarten
umbeset
undermine
weaken
worsen
Antonyms: abet
assist
expedite
facilitate
further
help
hurdle
nurture
Related words: abligate
bar
block
cap
counteract
cumber
detain
encumber
filibuster
forestall
hold back
keep back
inhibit
put on ice
roadblock
stall
stem
stop
suspend
underfoot
withstrain
hindrance
Derived words: hinderable
hinderance
hinderer
hinderment
hindersome
hindrance
unhinder
unhindered
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