Both Uses of
hinder
in
Jane Eyre
- Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.
Chpt 17hindering = slowing down or causing problems for
- No weather seemed to hinder him in these pastoral excursions: rain or fair, he would, when his hours of morning study were over, take his hat, and, followed by his father's old pointer, Carlo, go out on his mission of love or duty — I scarcely know in which light he regarded it.
Chpt 30 *hinder = cause problems that slowed
Definition:
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(hinder as in: hindered by) slow down or cause problems for