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hind

/haɪnd/ adjective C1
  1. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
  2. Backward; to the rear.

Comparative hinder · Superlative hindmost

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“Then, in order not to hinder you, I will get up with you if you please in your carriage, and Tom shall follow with my phaeton in tow.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 960 · C1
Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot (when a mongoose’s eyes grow red, he is angry), and he sat back on his tail and hind legs like a little kangaroo, and looked all round him, and chattered with rage.
The Jungle Book, p. 70 · B2
I thought I’d have so many things to love and nothing to hinder me.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 44 · C1
I walked into the doctor’s yard this morning, and shot my syringe full of aniseed over the hind wheel.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 122 · C1

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