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unhindered


verb (used with object)

  1. to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
  2. to prevent from doing, acting, or happening; stop: to hinder a man from committing a crime.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be an obstacle or impediment.

adjective

  1. without hindrancehe could proceed unhindered

verb

  1. to be or get in the way of (someone or something); hamper
  2. (tr) to prevent

adjective

  1. (prenominal) situated at or further towards the back or rear; posteriorthe hinder parts

adj.1610s, from un- (1) “not” + past participle of hinder. v.Old English hindrian “to harm, injure, impair, check, repress,” from Proto-Germanic *hinderojanan (cf. Old Norse hindra, Dutch hinderen, Old High German hintaron, German hindern “to keep back”), from a root meaning “on that side of, behind” (cf. hind (adj.)); thus the ground sense is “to put or keep back,” though this sense in English is recorded only from late 14c. Related: Hindered; hindering. adj,“situated in the rear, toward the back,” late 14c., probably from Old English hinder (adv.) “behind, back, afterward,” but treated as a comparative of hind (adj.). Related to Old High German hintar, German hinter, Gothic hindar “behind.” Middle English had hinderhede, literally “hinder-hood; posterity in time, inferiority in rank;” and hinderling “person fallen from moral or social respectability, wretch.”

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