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Definition

slow down or cause problems for

Her efforts to turn the department around were further hindered by budgetary cuts.

hindered = slowed down or caused problems for

hindering = slowing down or causing problems for

I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

hinder = slow down or cause problems for

You're hindering Ralph. You're not letting him get to the most important thing.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

hindering = slowing down

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.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

hinder = cause problems that slowed

it was to hinder Mr. Ladislaw from wanting to marry you for your money
George Eliot -- Middlemarch

hinder = slow down or cause problems

Sylvia still watched the toad, ... the creature wished to get to its hole under the door-step, and was much hindered by the unusual spectators at that hour of the evening.
Sarah Jewett -- A White Heron

hindered = slowed down

The trailing butts hindered her and the sharp, cross-cut points were a torment.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

hindered = slowed down

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.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
Astonished and shocked at so unlover-like a speech, she was almost ready to cry out, "Lord! what should hinder it?"
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility

hinder = slowed down or caused problems for

He gave a smile that meant no good and said, 'There is nothing to hinder you from dancing there again, little goatfoot; always provided you leave us in exchange a bride for our prince.'
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

hinder = prevent (cause problems)

...if she loved him she need only say the word yes, and no human power could hinder their bliss.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
I guess he could see in my eyes that I didn't intend to hinder him.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
O my husband, let me not hinder, but go with thee and help.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
What envy would hinder him?
Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
Caesar, thy thoughts Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou So sought'st to hinder.
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
Statues of women, if Lynch be right, should always be fully draped, one hand of the woman feeling regretfully her own hinder parts.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dissension will only hinder that objective.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
VOLP: Nay, now, My ruins shall not come alone; your match I'll hinder sure: my substance shall not glue you, Nor screw you into a family.
Ben Jonson -- Volpone
He was hindered from getting into it by his conviction that his life had been a good one.
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych

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