hinder

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   put at a disadvantage

   The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements

2. 2
   verb

   To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.

   A drought hinders the growth of plants.

3. 3
   verb

   To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.

   She hindered a man from committing suicide.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.

   the hinder end of a wagon

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   adj

   located at or near the back of an animal

8. 8
   verb

   be a hindrance or obstacle to

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”).