0 to limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something: --
Her progress certainly hasn't been hindered by her lack of experience.
High winds have hindered firefighters in their efforts to put out the blaze.
1 to limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something: --
The workings of state power hindered myriad possibilities for local and individual development.
His ability to do so is not hindered in any way by the fact that other persons give other meanings to his life.
Adding too many new constraints can in fact hinder search because of the increase in constraint checks that must be performed.
This hindered it from rising very high in the councils of the party-state.
If the social norms hinder women from venturing into public places such as markets, cashin-hand may actually be less useful than help in kind.
As this analysis unfolds, however, crucial variables often appear overly simplified and somewhat static, hindering analysis of their interactions.
Since the efficiency and performance of this technology is strongly hindered by fouling, future developments in membrane filters strive to reduce this phenomenon.
Under the existing patent system, access is hindered by high prices and launch delays.
