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hinder
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hinder as in:  hindered by

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  • 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.'  (source)
    hinder = prevent (cause problems)
  • But lock nor bar may hinder the homecoming spoken of old.  (source)
  • I thought I'd have so many things to love and nothing to hinder me.  (source)
    hinder = cause problems that slowed
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  • "I've got a sled standing outside now, with twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour on it," Matthewson went on with brutal directness; "so don't let that hinder you."  (source)
    hinder = prevent (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.  (source)
    hindered = slowed down
  • WANTED FOR ASSAULT, ARSON, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OF MILITARY PROPERTY, AND HINDERING THE WAR EFFORT 200,000 REPUBLIC NOTES FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO ARREST†  (source)
    HINDERING = slowing down or causing problems for
  • About his mother, who had died shortly after his three-days-old sister, leaving Hobie an only child; and about the young Jesuit father, a football coach, who—telephoned by a panicky Irish housemaid when Hobie's father was beating Hobie "to Hinders practically" with a belt—had dashed to the house, rolled up his sleeves, and punched Hobie's father to the ground.†  (source)
    Hinders = slows down or causes problems for
  • Laila knew that the days of innocent, unhindered frolicking in the streets with Tariq had passed.†  (source)
    unhindered = not slowed down or limited
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhindered means not and reverses the meaning of hindered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Naught is such queenlike 1940 For a woman to handle, though peerless she be, That a weaver of peace the life should waylay, For a shame that was lying, of a lief man of men; But the kinsman of Hemming, he hinder'd it surely.†  (source)
    hinder'd = slowed down or caused problems for
  • And now I take upon me the adventures of holy things, and now I see and understand that mine old sin hindereth me and shameth me, so that I had no power to stir nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me.†  (source)
    hindereth = slows down or causes problems for
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She hindereth" in older English, today we say "She hinders."
  • Of Norfolk was this Reeve, of which I tell, Beside a town men clepen* Baldeswell, *call Tucked he was, as is a friar, about, And ever rode the *hinderest of the rout*.†  (source)
    hinderest = slow down or cause problems for
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou hinderest" in older English, today we say "You hinder."
  • 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.  (source)
  • I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations.†  (source)
    hindered = slowed down or caused problems for
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