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Usually means: Obstacle that impedes or delays.
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  1. hindrance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hindrance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hindrance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hindrance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hindrance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hindrance, hindrance: Wordnik
  7. hindrance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hindrance: Wiktionary
  9. hindrance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hindrance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hindrance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hindrance, hindrance: Dictionary.com
  13. hindrance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hindrance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hindrance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hindrance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hindrance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hindrance: Rhymezone
  19. Hindrance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hindrance: Free Dictionary
  21. hindrance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hindrance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. hindrance: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. hindrance: Legal dictionary

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  1. hindrance: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.
▸ noun:  The state or act of hindering something

Similar:
impediment, incumbrance, handicap, encumbrance, interference, preventive, deterrent, interfering, preventative, hitch, more...

Opposite:
help, aid, assistance

Types:
distraction, obstacle, impediment, barrier, block, more...

Phrases:
without hindrance, steric hindrance, without let or hindrance, hindrance to, hindrance to survival, more...

Adjectives:
steric, great, serious, major, little, positive, more, further, real, only, main


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Similar:
impediment, incumbrance, handicap, encumbrance, interference, preventive, deterrent, interfering, preventative, hitch, more...

Opposite:
help, aid, assistance

Types:
distraction, obstacle, impediment, barrier, block, more...

Phrases:
without hindrance, steric hindrance, without let or hindrance, hindrance to, hindrance to survival, opposite of hindrance, more...

Adjectives:
steric, great, serious, major, little, positive, more, further, real, only, main

Crossword clues:
making it difficult,   holding you back,   an obstacle,   making it harder,   holds you back,   hidden obstacle,   unhelpful obstacle,   works against you,   big obstacle,   little obstacle


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