0 present participle of hinder --
1 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.
The volume of requests should be hindering the development of a profile for a particular user.
In many countries this is a serious bottleneck hindering this and other development processes.
Most of the programs have made improved stoves available at subsidized rates, hindering their commercialization.
Scarcity of trained staff results in poor record keeping and unreliable data, hindering healthcare planning and policy.
No evidence is, however, found in favour of income heterogeneity hindering or facilitating collective action.
Insofar as it counteracts the hindering of a citizen's legitimate exercise of her freedom, then, coercion promotes that exercise and is thereby consistent with it.
Paradoxically, dynamics can help in achieving some specific control tasks, as well as hindering others.
From the 1950s, the unions played an active role in eliminating women and hindering women's recruitment.
