hinder

To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.

A drought hinders the growth of plants.

We doubt not of a faire and luckie Warre, / Since God ſo graciouſly hath brought to light / This dangerous Treaſon, lurking in our way, / To hinder our beginnings.

To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.

She hindered a man from committing suicide.

Then let me goe, and hinder not my courſe: [...]

To cause harm.

If me and a certain character met, the guy that invented the cigarette, I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree. Now it ain't 'cause that I don't smoke myself and I don't reckon they hinder your health. I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet.

Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.

the hinder end of a wagon

the hinder parts of a horse

The buttocks.

Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder.