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hin⋅drance

  [hin-druhns]
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–noun
1. an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
2. the state of being hindered.
3. a person or thing that hinders.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME hinderaunce. See hinder 1 , -ance

Synonyms:
3. impediment, encumbrance, obstruction, check; restraint. See obstacle.

Antonyms:
3. aid.
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hin·drance   (hĭn'drəns)   
n.  
    1. The act of hindering.
    2. The condition of being hindered.
  2. One that hinders; an impediment. See Synonyms at obstacle.

[Middle English hindraunce, harm, from hindren, to hinder; see hinder1.]
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Hindrance

Hin"drance\, n. [See Hinder, v. t.]

1. The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.

2. That which hinders; an impediment.

What various hindrances we meet. --Cowper.

Something between a hindrance and a help. --Wordsworth.

Syn: Impediment; obstruction; obstacle; difficulty; interruption; check; delay; restraint.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : hindrance
Spanish: estorbo,
German: das Hindernis,
Japanese: 妨害
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hindrance 
1436, from hindren, from same root as hinder (v.), on model of Fr.-derived words such as resistance.
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