hinder
/ˈhɪndɚ/ verb C2- To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate. · A drought hinders the growth of plants.
- To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. · She hindered a man from committing suicide.
He/she/it hinders · Past hindered · Past participle hindered · -ing form hindering
Verb forms
- Base form
- hinder
- He/she/it
- hinders
- Past
- hindered
- Past participle
- hindered
- -ing form
- hindering
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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.”
“I say, captain,” said the sailor who had cried “Courage!” to Dantès, “if what he says is true, what hinders his staying with us?”
I thought I’d have so many things to love and nothing to hinder me.
They were buckshot cartridges, and, as Sergeant Wilson pointed out, the triggers were wired together so that, if you pulled on the hinder one, both barrels were discharged.
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