HINDERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hindering mean? 

• HINDERING (adjective)
  The adjective HINDERING has 1 sense:

1. preventing movement

  Familiarity information: HINDERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HINDERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preventing movement

Synonyms:

clogging; hindering; impeding; obstructive

Context example:

the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street

Similar:

preventative; preventive (tending to prevent or hinder)

 Context examples 

These results suggest that interfering with the cytokine pathway could prevent opioid-induced prolonged chronic pain without hindering the painkilling properties.

(Opioid Pain Relievers May Prolong Pain, NIH)

Clavulanic acid contains a beta-lactam ring and binds strongly to beta-lactamase at or near its active site, thereby hindering enzymatic activity.

(Clavulanic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding.

(Interference, NCI Thesaurus)

An antineoplastic agent that replaces hydrogen atom(s) in nucleophilic moieties with alky radical(s), hindering proper function.

(Antineoplastic Alkylating Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

Intoplicine inhibits activities of both topoisomerase I and II via intercalating DNA helix, thereby hindering the movements of enzymes along DNA molecules during DNA transcription and replication, respectively.

(Intoplicine, NCI Thesaurus)

Alkylating Activity in biological systems is typically a process of covalent bonding in which a chemical substance replaces hydrogen atom(s) in biologically active molecules with alkyl radical(s), hindering proper function.

(Alkylation Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Agents that replace hydrogen atom(s) in biologically active molecules with alky radical(s), hindering proper function.

(Alkylating agent, NCI Thesaurus)

The Eldgjá lava flood affected southern Iceland within a century of the island’s settlement by Vikings and Celts around 874, but until now the date of the eruption has been uncertain, hindering investigation of its likely impacts.

(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)

From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)