Usually means: Impeding progress, obstructing or delaying.
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  1. hindering: Merriam-Webster
  2. hindering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hindering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hindering, hindering: Wordnik
  5. hindering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hindering: Wiktionary
  7. Hindering, hindering: Dictionary.com
  8. hindering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hindering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. hindering: Rhymezone
  11. Hindering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. hindering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. hindering: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hindering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hindering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hindering: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hindering)

▸ adjective:  Harmful; of or relating to that which hinders.

Similar:
preventive, obstructive, clogging, preventative, impeding, injurious, inhibitory, obstructional, prohibitional, malevolent, more...

Opposite:
facilitating, facilitative

Types:
hindrance, hinderance, more...

Phrases:
hindering from, not hindering, hindering progress, more...

Adjectives:
terrible, great, more, internal, busy, acid, stubborn, mutual, general, direct, steric

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Similar:
preventive, obstructive, clogging, preventative, impeding, injurious, inhibitory, obstructional, prohibitional, malevolent, more...

Opposite:
facilitating, facilitative

Types:
hindrance, hinderance, more...

Phrases:
hindering from, not hindering, hindering progress, more...

Adjectives:
terrible, great, more, internal, busy, acid, stubborn, mutual, general, direct, steric

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     dark blue,     dark green, more...



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