hinder

adj

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hinder, comparative form of hind: more hind.

1. comparative form of hind: more hind

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hinder, comparative form of hind: more hind.

1. The buttocks.

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

verb

Etymology: From Middle English hindren, from Old English hindrian, from Proto-Germanic *hindrōną, *hinderōną (“to hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *hinder (“back”) (adverb). Cognate with Dutch hinderen and German hindern, Latin contra (“back, against”).

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

   “A drought hinders the growth of plants.”

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

   “She hindered a man from committing suicide.”

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

3. To cause harm.

   “If me and a certain character met, the guy that invented the cigarette, I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree. Now it ain't 'cause that I don't smoke myself and I don't reckon they hinder your health. I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet.”