All 4 Uses
hinder
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
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- It was but now that I never more for woes that weighed on me waited help long as I lived, when, laved in blood, stood sword-gore-stained this stateliest house, —widespread woe for wise men all, who had no hope to hinder ever foes infernal and fiendish sprites from havoc in hall.†
hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
- Him I might not — the Maker willed not —hinder from flight, and firm enough hold the life-destroyer: too sturdy was he, the ruthless, in running!†
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- She grasped out for him with grisly claws, and the warrior seized; yet scathed she not his body hale; the breastplate hindered, as she strove to shatter the sark of war, the linked harness, with loathsome hand.†
- But Hemming's kinsman hindered this.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(hinder as in: hindered by) slow down or cause problems for
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)