0 past simple and past participle of hinder
1 to limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something:
High winds have hindered firefighters in their efforts to put out the blaze.
Her progress certainly hasn't been hindered by her lack of experience.
Differences in acculturation and socioeconomic status produced high levels of intragroup variability that hindered a straightforward application of the categorical approach.
Magmatic differentiation of the entire chamber is hindered and vertical systematic zonation may be impossible for these crystal-rich systems.
This would have been a serious work, and might have extended the number of pages, but without these, self-study of the text is hindered.
Under the existing patent system, access is hindered by high prices and launch delays.
Since the efficiency and performance of this technology is strongly hindered by fouling, future developments in membrane filters strive to reduce this phenomenon.
This hindered it from rising very high in the councils of the party-state.
His ability to do so is not hindered in any way by the fact that other persons give other meanings to his life.
The workings of state power hindered myriad possibilities for local and individual development.
