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To hinder is defined as to restrain or hold something back.

(verb)

An example of to hinder is to block an entrance with barriers.
An example of to hinder is to hold someone's arm to keep them from going through a door.

See hinder in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

to keep back; restrain; get in the way of; prevent; stop
to make difficult for; thwart; impede; frustrate

Origin: ME hindren < OE hindrian, lit., to keep or hold back (akin to Ger hindern) < base of hinder

intransitive verb

to delay action; be a hindrance

adjective

Now Rare hind; rear; posterior

Origin: ME hindre < OE adv. hinder, back, behind (akin to Ger prep. hinter, behind) < ? base of he (see he) + compar. suffix -der, akin to Gr -tero-, Sans -tara-: the word is now felt as compar. of hind