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adjective

as in blocked

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verb

past tense of hinder
as in hampered
to create difficulty for the work or activity of was not hindered by a lack of money because she could use what food she had on hand

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Recent Examples of hindered
Verb
The administration’s postponement of a Food and Drug Administration rule hampered the food safety system, which hindered a response to the outbreak. — Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026 Shanahan, whose concussion from a July 14 car crash hindered him at the start of camp, said players’ Guardian-cap cushions can only do so much. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026 Democrats have been hindered nationally by stricter rules against partisan line-drawing in their states, but California showed a way around that. — Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026 But the Democrats are not hindered more by one than the other. — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026 Regulations still fail to properly safeguard community health, Alfaro said, especially for children whose development can be hindered after pesticide exposure. — Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026 But Oleh’s transition did more or less coincide with the Russian invasion, which has severely hindered his ability to live freely and openly at a time when men are expected to serve their country in the armed forces. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026 Saudi crude oil and refined petroleum product exports are also hindered by attacks on shipping through the Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb straits. — Amy Myers Jaffe, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2026 Aid organizations have said that community mistrust, insecurity due to armed conflict, and gaps in healthcare have hindered response and containment efforts. — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hindered
  1. obstructed
  2. hampered
  3. stopped
  4. impeded
  5. precluded
  6. embarrassed
Adjective
  • Following the complaints about obstructed views, Bills team executives told the media that many of those seats are being sold for events like concerts, not games.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The obstructed view and small video boards are by far the biggest complaints, and here is a small bit of what was being said.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of obstructed
Verb
  • But the lack of a proper contest between bat and ball in Pakistani domestic first-class cricket has starved locals of that preparation time and hampered the development of genuine pace.
    — Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • However, difficult weather conditions hampered the search in the following days, as the service wrote in a subsequent update.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of hampered
Adjective
  • Three other vehicles with human drivers then appeared to illegally pass the stopped bus.
    — Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The truck crossed into the eastbound lane and crashed into the stopped Kia, striking the three pedestrians, CHP said.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2026
Definition of stopped
Verb
  • Limited fiber-optic coverage left consumers with slow connections, which impeded digital transactions and the delivery of valuable offerings.
    — Jim DeLoach, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Yet the setting of so many of the sculptures against the wall impeded the kind of looking the works demand.
    — Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of impeded
Adjective
  • Over the ensuing decades—and fully informed of the substantial executive power exercised by the Commission—the Supreme Court has repeatedly and expressly left Humphrey's Executor in place, and so precluded Presidents from removing Commissioners at will.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Definition of precluded
Verb
  • One night earlier in the tour, a woman Usher had brought onstage rebuked him, which embarrassed him.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026
  • This isn’t a hypercar to smash lap records around the Nürburgring, but nor will it be embarrassed by a Porsche 911 GT3 at a track day.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of embarrassed

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