Word Finder - hinders

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.

For example, tetracycline binds to bacterial ribosomes, which make proteins, and in doing so hinders protein production.

In addition, this variability also hinders clinical research.

These skirt bottoms are often ruffled, just like a short peasant skirt, although some people claim that the extra fabric hinders swimming.

Over time, this accumulation becomes toxic and makes you sick, or at the very least hinders your health from being at its best.

The coastal lowland between the sea arms is so flat that, although distinctly above sea-level, vegetation hinders drainage and extensive swamps or pocossins occur.

An interrupted development hinders the brain from developing a natural handedness.

It may be that pacifier use spreads infection or that intense sucking on pacifiers hinders proper functioning of the eustachian tube that normally keeps the middle ear open and clean.

A sedentary lifestyle hinders many of the body's natural processes and when toxins build up in the blood and lymph fluids, your chance for disease increases markedly.

Incomplete digestion hinders food's nutrients from properly absorbing and nourishing the body, which may lead to disease and health complications.

No verbal formula can really enclose the life of a people or an age, but we can best understand the significant ^ of the old Greek cities and the life they developed, when, looking at the history of mankind as a whole, we see the part played by reason, active and critical, in breaking down the barriers by which custom hinders movement, in guiding movement to definite ends, in dissipating groundless beliefs and leading onwards to fresh scientific conquests - when we see this and then take note that among the ancient Greeks such an activity of reason began in an entirely novel degree and that its activity in Europe ever since is due to their impulsion.

This, together with the compactness of the mortar, hinders the ingress and egress of water, and prevents the dissolution and ultimate destruction of the cement.

If allowed to remain under water too long, the fibre is weakened by what is termed " over-retting," a condition which increases the amount of codilla in the scutching process; whilst " under-retting " leaves part of the gummy or resinous matter in the material, which hinders the subsequent process of manufacture.

But the mystery latent in our ideas of space and time is, that " something in the mind " irresistibly hinders us from allowing the possibility of any limit to either.

It belongs to this view to regard the imperfection of things as devoid of real being, and so incapable of being definitely thought or known; accordingly, we find that Plato has no technical term for that in the concrete sensible world which hinders it from perfectly expressing the abstract ideal world, and which in Aristotle's system is distinguished as absolutely formless matter (An).

As the non-ego helps or hinders, enlarges or limits, our inner life, we feel pleasure or pain.

It would behoove us to leave before midday's heat hinders you.

This book brings Scripture alive to prove that church is not only expendable, it hinders spiritual growth.

They are precipitated from their alkaline solutions as cobalt sulphide by sulphuretted hydrogen, but this precipitation is prevented by the presence of citric and tartaric acids; similarly the presence of ammonium salts hinders their precipitation by caustic alkalis.

It also seriously hinders or prevents many collaborations from taking place.

Homelessness is common among sex workers and all too often a lack of stable accommodation hinders any attempts to exit prostitution.

Additionally, the fact that GIS cannot be considered to be truly three-dimensional hinders the analysis of three-dimensional archeological deposits.

Napoleon did not notice that in regard to his army he was playing the part of a doctor who hinders by his medicines--a role he so justly understood and condemned.

The man who does not understand the construction of the machine cannot conceive that the small connecting cogwheel which revolves quietly is one of the most essential parts of the machine, and not the shaving which merely harms and hinders the working.

If your existing toilet seat is stained, cracked or broken, it detracts from the overall look of the bathroom, not to mention hinders functionality.

The humor is dull; the action is plentiful, but unattached; and the slowdown hinders gameplay most of the way through the game.

You don't know who's getting one, which hinders any chance of people going elsewhere.

Unfortunately, Microsoft severely hinders the abilities of these applications and they are not viable desktop replacements.

Essentially, the condition is one that hinders or blocks intestinal absorption of important nutrients.

Like the hardening of steel, it hinders the transformation of the austenite, whether primary or eutectic, into pearlite+cementite, and thus catches part of the iron in transit in the hard a state.