Hinder
['hɪndə] or ['hɪndɚ]
Definition
(a.) Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
(a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
(a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
(v. i.) To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Hind, back, posterior.
v. a. Prevent (temporarily), impede, obstruct, stop, interrupt, retard, check, thwart, oppose, embarrass.
Checker: Stan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prevent, interrupt, obstruct, retard, debar, embarrass, impede, thwart, block,stop
ANT:Accelerate, expedite, enable, promote, facilitate, hinderance,[See HINDER]
Checker: Wade
Definition
v.t. to put or keep behind: to stop or prevent progress: to embarrass.—v.i. to be an obstacle.—ns. Hin′derance Hin′drance act of hindering: that which hinders: obstacle.
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Examples
- I find them irrational, perverse; they hinder me when I long to hurry forward. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She said hurriedly, I am so glad, and then bent over her writing to hinder any one from noticing her face. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, it would have been worse if he had made the codicil to hinder her from marrying again at all, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I utterly distrust his morals, and it is my duty to hinder to the utmost the fulfilment of his designs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As to gossip, you know, sending him away won't hinder gossip. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Bowyer couldn't afford it, and only wanted to hinder every other man from making a figure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You cannot say that I have ever tried to hinder you from working. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Where has it helped them, where hindered? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He himself was hindered from drinking the water. Plato. The Republic.
- Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In speaking of Edison's method of experimenting, another of his laboratory staff says: He is never hindered by theory, but resorts to actual experiment for proof. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was not what he had intended; but other schemes would not be hindered: they would simply adjust themselves anew. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But I ha' my reasons—mine, yo see—for being hindered; not on'y now, but awlus—awlus—life long! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Then Birkin said: 'Am I hindering you? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then we must abstain from spoiling the dead or hindering their burial? Plato. The Republic.
- The straining of the imagination always hinders the regular flowing of the passions and sentiments. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The monopoly raises the rate of profit, but it hinders the sum of profit from rising so high as it otherwise would do. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But as the coil turns, the suspending wire becomes twisted and hinders the turning. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Where objects are not contrary, nothing hinders them from having that constant conjunction, on which the relation of cause and effect totally depends. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What hinders you from going? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He lets you have your plans, only he hinders you from being taken in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Patrick