Synonyms:
hindrance, hinderance, interference
Meaning: the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
Synonyms:
hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference
Meaning: any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
Synonyms:
hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap
Meaning: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
Usage examples
"An Indian trick," said he, shaking the drops of water from his face. "On a walk, food is a hindrance, a delay.
"I think," said Anne slowly, "that I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory.
She approved his desire to quit the realm for the sake of his honour, and far from putting let and hindrance in his path, trusted that in the end he would bring again her son.
Once or twice a guard-boat passed them closely enough to make sure that there were only two colored children in the boat, and they came up under the walls of Fort Sumter without a hindrance.
Under his strong excitement his voice had gathered power and his last sentences were spoken with scarcely a perceptible halt or hindrance. With an effort he had raised himself almost without assistance to a sitting posture.
Instantly I stepped out into the street, picked up the box, and replaced it in the cart: in the next moment the bicycle had spun round the corner, passed the cart without let or hindrance, and soon vanished in the distance, in a cloud of dust.