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verb

hinder

CEFR C2

to create difficulties, resulting in delay or obstruction

In a sentence

Six example sentences with hinder, each labelled with its topic.

  • Skipping the warm-up will hinder your progress far more than missing a single session at the gym.

    Fitness

  • Thick scar tissue can hinder the joint so badly that patients need six months of therapy to bend it.

    Medicine

  • Requiring three signatures for every purchase hindered the small team, which shipped nothing for two months while approvals crawled.

    Startups

  • High tariffs hinder trade between neighbours, and the border towns on both sides lost their markets within a decade.

    Economics

  • Roadworks hindered the bus for an hour outside the city, and we reached the hostel long after the kitchen closed.

    Travel

  • A slow test suite hinders every developer on the team, since each small change waits forty minutes for a verdict.

    Technology

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