All 5 Uses
hinder
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- we'll have the gal out and out, and you keep quiet, or, ye see, we'll have both,—what's to hinder?†
Chpt 1.8 *hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
- A few moments more, and her father bore her, dripping and senseless, to the ladies' cabin, where, as is usual in cases of the kind, there ensued a very well-meaning and kind-hearted strife among the female occupants generally, as to who should do the most things to make a disturbance, and to hinder her recovery in every way possible.†
Chpt 1.14
- We hindered and repressed a great deal of cruelty, and congratulated ourselves on doing a vast deal of good, till, as often happens, my zeal overacted.†
Chpt 2.19
- well, what hinders your sleeping?†
Chpt 2.39hinders = slows down or causes problems for
- Who's to hinder, I wonder?†
Chpt 2.40hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
Definitions:
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(1)
(hinder as in: hindered by) slow down or cause problems for
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)