All 5 Uses
hinder
in
Fathers and Sons
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- He did not hinder the young man in his scientific researches; he used to sit down somewhere in a corner of the room and look on attentively, occasionally permitting himself a discreet question.†
Chpt 23hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
- 'I must apologise for hindering you in your scientific pursuits,' he began, seating himself on a chair in the window, and leaning with both hands on a handsome walking-stick with an ivory knob (he usually walked without a stick), 'but I am constrained to beg you to spare me five minutes of your time ...no more.'†
Chpt 24hindering = slowing down or causing problems for
- 'There's no one in sight; no one hinders us.†
Chpt 24 *hinders = slows down or causes problems for
- 'I want to work, so please don't hinder me now.'†
Chpt 27hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
- 'You shall forget my face completely, if you call that hindering you!' answered Vassily Ivanovitch.†
Chpt 27hindering = slowing down or causing 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)