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hindern, verb, ‘to impede, obstruct, prevent,’ from Middle High German hindern, Old High German hintiren and hintarôn, ‘to repulse, hinder’; compare Anglo-Saxon hinderian, English to hinder, Old Icelandic hindra; an old derivative from the preposition hinter; see the latter and fördern.