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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which hinders.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, hinders.

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  • noun One who, or that which, hinders.

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Examples

  • Is it helpful or a hinderer to the political process?

    Romney to give Mormon speech Teresa 2007

  • Is it helpful or a hinderer to the political process?

    Archive 2007-12-01 Teresa 2007

  • Is it helpful or a hinderer to the political process?

    Romney to give Mormon speech Teresa 2007

  • Is it helpful or a hinderer to the political process?

    Romney to give Mormon speech Teresa 2007

  • If this theory be right, then Voltaire must naturally be abhorred by all persons who hold it, as a perverse and mischievous hinderer of light.

    Voltaire 2007

  • His head, shoulders, yea all his utmost strength he employeth, to remove that over-heavy hinderer of his libertie: but all his labour beeing spent in vaine, sorrow threw him in a swoond upon the Byshoppes dead body, where if both of them might at that instant have bin observed, the Arch-byshops dead bodie, and Andrea in greefe dying, very hardly had bene distinguished.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But one foreign bank cited the control of the banking infrastructure by the domestic banks as a hinderer of change.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Proceeding in the same train of thought I may remark that the word deon (obligation) has a meaning which is the opposite of all the other appellations of good; for deon is here a species of good, and is, nevertheless, the chain (desmos) or hinderer of motion, and therefore own brother of blaberon.

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • What is "Men's damager, words 'hinderer, and yet words' arouser?"

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • [Sidenote: Discord in an armie the hinderer of all profitable enterprises.] if the two kings had not doone their best to appease the fraie begun.

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed

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