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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Found in 4 published word lists
- General Service List (West 1953, Bauman/Culligan rev.)Authoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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