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hinder¹

  • /ˈhɪndəː/ Australia, UK
  • [ˈhɪndəː] Australia, UK
  • /ˈhɪndɚ/ US
  • [ˈhɪndɚ] ~ [ˈhɪndɹ̩] US

Rhymes with -ɪndə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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”).

verb hinders · hindering · hindered · hindre

  1. transitive To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate. A drought hinders the growth of plants.
  2. ambitransitive To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent. She hindered a man from committing suicide.
  3. obsolete, transitive To cause harm. 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.

Similar: behedge, blunt, crimp, foreclose, delay, difficult, diminish, forestay, retroact, interfere, intervene, forslow

hinder²

  • /ˈhaɪ̯n.dəː/ UK
  • [ˈhaɪ̯n.dəː] UK
  • /ˈhaɪ̯n.dɚ/ US
  • [ˈhaɪ̯n.dɚ] ~ [ˈhaɪ̯n.dɹ̩] US
  • /ˈhaːn.dɚ/
  • [ˈhaːn.dɚ] ~ [ˈhaːn.dɹ̩]

Rhymes with -aɪndə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English hinder, comparative form of hind: more hind.

adjective hindre

  1. not comparable Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows. the hinder end of a wagon

adjective hindre

  1. comparative comparative form of hind: more hind

noun hinders · hindre

  1. euphemistic, slang The buttocks. Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder.

Hinder³

proper noun

  1. A surname.

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