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# hinder

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** verb, adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈhɪndɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈhɪndə/
**Frequency rank:** 21987

## Meanings
1. To make it harder for something to happen or for someone to do something.
2. At the back or rear.

## Examples
- The heavy snow hindered the rescue team's efforts.
- The dog injured one of its hinder legs.

## Synonyms
- behedge
- blunt
- delay
- difficult
- diminish
- forestay
- forslow
- frustrate
- hamper
- handicap
- hurt
- impair

## Antonyms
- abet
- assist
- expedite
- facilitate
- further
- help
- hurdle
- nurture

## Derived Forms
- hinderable
- hinderance
- hinderer
- hinderment
- hindersome
- hindrance
- unhinder
- unhindered

## Related Forms
- abligate
- bar
- block
- cap
- counteract
- cumber
- detain
- encumber
- filibuster
- forestall
- hindrance
- inhibit

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hindren
- Root: hindrian
- Root: *hindrōną
- Root: *hinder

## 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”).

## AI Etymology
Hinder is 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”). Important recorded forms include hindren (Middle English), hindrian (Old English), *hindrōną (Proto-Germanic), and *hinder (Proto-Germanic). Current senses include to make it harder for something to happen or for someone to do something and at the back or rear. The wider family includes derived forms such as hinderable, hinderance, hinderer, hinderment, and hindersome and related words such as abligate, bar, block, cap, and counteract.

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