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Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else. quotations examples
The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]
1944 January and February, C. F. Cobon, “The County of London Plan”, in Railway Magazine, page 24
The state or act of hindering something examples