Word Finder - hinder

definition

To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.

example

A drought hinders the growth of plants.

synonyms

• delay
• frustrate
• hamper
• impede
• obstruct
• prevent
• thwart

definition

To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.

example

She hindered a man from committing suicide.

synonyms

• bar
• block
• delay
• hamper
• impede
• obstruct
• restrain
• stop

definition

To cause harm.

He will not hinder anything useful nor allow anything harmful.

She wasn't certain why her chest felt tight enough to hinder her breathing while her eyes were watering.

Besides, I want to go very much and certainly will go, so don't hinder me, said he.

The persecutions it had to endure did not hinder its extension.

The muscles of the fore limbs are most aberrant, but at the same time more uniformly developed than those of the hinder extremities.

Polarized lenses can hinder your ability to read an LCD screen.

The salivary duct opens on its hinder surface.

Part of him knew the Council was stalling him for that reason, though whether they did so to hinder his efforts or to maintain the appearance of their power over him, he wasn't sure.

Did he think that his physical limitations would hinder Almighty God?

It has been shown to hinder the replication of cancerous cells.

The codes on a page that prevent the bot from viewing your site ultimately hinder you in the search engines.

The segments which follow gradually widen, and tie hinder part of the sternum is broad and flat.

The first part treats of the vices that hinder the attainment of holiness, the second of the virtues of a Christian.

The hinder end of the lower jaw is provided with a deep descending flange.

This study discovers how being visually impaired can hinder progress and looks at common experiences.

Baby bottle tooth decay can cause painful toothaches which can hinder eating.

They articulate upon facets of the hinder outer corners of the basihyal.

He is gone and no one will hinder you, she said to herself, and sinking into a chair she let her head fall on the window sill.

While the community's or building's rules are seldom deal-breakers, it's important to establish which rules you can accept and those that will hinder your lifestyle before you even start looking.

The parent's or caregiver's behavior can also hinder bonding.

Parliament voted her £ 20,000 in 1660 for the payment of her debts, but Elizabeth did not receive the money, and on the 19th of May 1661 she left the Hague for England, in spite of the king's attempts to hinder her journey, receiving no official welcome on her arrival in London and being lodged at Lord Craven's house in Drury Lane.

The incisors are small and the canines scarcely enlarged; the latter having a gap on each side in the lower, but only one on their hinder aspect in the upper jaw.

Combat engineers are trained and equipped to clear enemy minefields which block or hinder movement.

A. Things That Hinder A person who desires to become a mourner must eliminate anything masking sin in his or her life.

The fact is that those men with whom you have ridden round the position not only do not help matters, but hinder.

Sweat and dirt will hinder the performance of the suit.

Bitter disappointment, however, soon overcame them, the Samaritans were strong enough to thwart and hinder their temple-building, and it seemed as though the divine favour was withdrawn.

Two more species of Hylactes are known, and 1 Of Spanish origin, it is intended as a reproof to the bird for the shameless way in which, by erecting its tail, it exposes its hinder parts.

The upper, wide opening of the duct is attached by elastic, peritoneal lamellae to the hinder margin of the left lung; the middle portion of the duct is glandular and thick-walled, for the deposition of the albumen; it is connected by a short, constricted " isthmus " (where the shell-membrane is formed) with a dilated " uterus " in which the egg receives its calcareous shell and eventual pigmentation.

In the cockroach embryo, before the segmentation of the germ-band has begun, the primitive germ-cells can be recognized at the hinder end of the mesoderm, from whose ordinary cells they can be distinguished by their larger size.

When, as is the case among nearly all existing mammals with the exception of the members of the genera Sus (pigs), Gymnura (ratshrew), Talpa (moles) and Myogale (desmans) the number of teeth is reduced below the typical forty-four, it appears to be an almost universal rule that if one of the incisors is missing it is the second, or middle one, while the premolars commence to disappear from the front end of the series and the molars from the hinder end.

Efforts not wholly unsuccessful were made to hinder recruiting in Ireland, and every reverse or repulse of British arms was greeted with Nationalist applause.

In the hinder limb the femur is marked, as in other perissodactyles, by the presence of a " third trochanter," a flattened process, curving forwards and arising from the outer side of the bone, about one-third of the distance from the upper end.

The terminal phalange of the toe is greatly enlarged and modified in form to support this hoof, and the size of the internal framework of the foot is increased by a pair of lateral fibro-cartilaginous masses attached on each side to the hinder edges of the bone, and by a fibro-cellular and fatty plantar cushion in the median part.

An occasionally slightly sluggish performance by the orchestra didn't seem to hinder the fluidity of movement on the stage.

This portion, morphologically the original, was named the " accessory semitendinosus " with the symbol Y; the other portion descends on the hinder aspect of the leg and joins the fascia of the inner femoral head of the gastrocnemius muscle.

In many aquatic larvae we find that all the spiracles are closed up, or become functionless, except a pair at the hinder end which are associated with some arrangement - such as the valvular flaps of the gnat larva or the telescopic " tail " of the drone-fly larva - for piercing the surface film and drawing periodical supplies of atmospheric air.

The mouth is wide, bounded by stiff immobile lips, and curves slightly upwards at the hinder end.

All the other families of Hymenoptera, including the gall-flies, ichneumons and aculeates, have the first abdominal segment closely united with the thorax, the second abdominal segment constricted so as to form a narrow stalk or " waist," and legless larvae without a hinder outlet to the food-canal.

Another group is Pronolagus, typified by the Cape thick-tailed hare, the so-called Lepus crassicaudatus, which is externally similar to Lepus proper, but has the skull and teeth of the general type of the next group. The tailless rabbit of Mount Popocatepetl, Mexico, originally described as a distinct generic type, under the name of Romerolagus nelsoni, is broadly distinguished by the entire absence of the tail, and the short ears and hind-feet, its general form being like that of the Liu-Kiu rabbit, while, as in the latter, the post-orbital process of the skull is small, and represented only by the hinder half.

The squirrel-monkeys were formerly classed with the douroucoulis (see DouRoucouLI), but, on account of their brain-structure, they have been transferred to the Cebinae (see CAPUCHIN-MONKEY), from the other members of which they differ by their practically non-prehensile tails and smaller size, while they are further distinguished by their comparatively large eyes and the backward prolongation of the hinder part of the head.

The more primitive forms (Entomostraca) are anomomeristic, presenting great variety as to number of somites, form of appendages, and tagmatic grouping; the higher forms (Malacostraca) are nomomeristic, showing in front of the telson twenty somites, of which the six hinder carry swimmerets and the five next in front ambulatory limbs.

The sabotage mission on the Vemork plant was now to hinder Germany for the rest of the war.

An occasionally slightly sluggish performance by the orchestra did n't seem to hinder the fluidity of movement on the stage.

There are so many factors that can hinder and even stop an adoption process, and of course, these will vary depending on the type of adoption you are involved in.

Not only does this hinder the development of the older child, but it can stunt even a baby's self esteem and sense of independence from an early age.

As if the biting cold of winter doesn't hinder a mother's plans enough, the scalding nature of the summer months can leave families trapped inside during key afternoon hours.

Dents could make them unattractive or hinder their ability to hold the amount of weight they usually can.

Diet soft drinks may not contain corn syrup or white sugar, but sometimes they contain other sweeteners that hinder good health.

With permanent makeup, participating in outdoor sporting activities won't hinder your brows.