hinder

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

   “Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back – their defence comprising four centre-halves – and the lack of width was hindering their progress.”

2. (ambitransitive)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: [...]”

   “[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. (obsolete, transitive)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.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)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”

   “Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end.”

   “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)comparative form of hind: more hind

noun

1. (euphemistic, slang)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.”

name

1. A surname.