• (RP) IPA: /ˈhɪndə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈhɪndɚ/

hinder (hinders, present participle hindering; past and past participle hindered)

1. (transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act#Verb|act as an obstacle; to frustrate.

   Synonyms: delay, frustrate, hamper, impede, obstruct, prevent, thwart, Thesaurus:hinder

   Antonyms: assist, expedite, facilitate, help

   A drought hinders the growth of plants.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii], page 75 ↗, column 2:

     We doubt not of a faire and luckie Warre, / Since God ſo graciouſly hath brought to light / This dangerous Treaſon, lurking in our way, / To hinder our beginnings.

2. (ambitransitive) To delay#Verb|delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.

   Synonyms: bar, block, delay, hamper, impede, obstruct, restrain, stop

   Antonyms: aid, assist, help

   • c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene vii], page 28 ↗, column 1:

     Then let me goe, and hinder not my courſe: [...]

   • 1689 December (indicated as 1690)​, [John Locke], “Who Heir?”, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], OCLC 83985187 ↗, book I, paragraph 142, pages 181–182 ↗:

     [I]f in thoſe days Cham and Japhet, and other Parents beſides the Eldest Son were Heads and Princes over their Families, and had a right to divide the Earth by Families, what hinders Younger Brothers, being Fathers of Families from having the ſame right, [...]

3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause#Verb|cause harm#Noun|harm.

• French: entraver
• German: erschweren
• Italian: impedire
• Portuguese: dificultar, frustrar
• Russian: меша́ть
• Spanish: impedir, (formally) obstar, dificultar, estorbar

• French: entraver, délayer
• German: hindern, behindern, erschweren
• Italian: ostacolare, ritardare, intralciare, impedire
• Portuguese: impedir, reter, entravar, estorvar, atrapalhar
• Russian: меша́ть
• Spanish: estorbar, impedir, entorpecer

• (RP) IPA: /ˈhaɪn.də/
• (America) IPA: /ˈhaɪn.dɚ/

hinder (not comparable)

1. Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.

   the hinder end of a wagon

   the hinder parts of a horse

   • 1990 - C. W. H. Havard (ed.), Black's Medical Dictionary, 36th edition, p 673

     On a line dividing the front two-thirds from the hinder one-third, and set in the shape of a V, is a row of seven to twelve large flat-topped circumvallate papillae, ...

2. comparative form of hind

• (of or belonging to that part in the rear) back, hind, rear, posterior

• (of or belonging to that part in the rear) fore, front

• hind
• hindermost
• hindmost

• German: Hinter-, hinter
• Portuguese: traseiro, posterior
• Russian: за́дний

hinder (plural hinders)

1. (slang, euphemistic) The buttocks.
   • 1997, Richard Laliberte and Stephen C. George, The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning , ISBN 0875963234, page 195:

     Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder.

• German: Hintern
• Portuguese: traseiro, bunda
• Russian: за́дница
• Spanish: nalgas