1. Preventing movement
   "the hindering crowds of revelers overflowing into the street";
   - clogging, impeding, obstructive

1. Be a hindrance or obstacle to
   "She is hindering the progress of our project";
   - impede, trammel [literary], entrammel [literary], fetter [literary]
    
2. Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
   "His brother hindered him at every turn";
   - obstruct, blockade, block, stymie, stymy [rare], embarrass [archaic]
    
3. Put at a disadvantage
   "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements";
   - handicap, hamper

See also: preventative, preventive

Type of: disadvantage, disfavor [US], disfavour [Brit, Cdn], forbid, foreclose, forestall, keep, preclude, prevent

Encyclopedia: Hinder, Paul