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Clog is a synonym of hinder.


As nouns the difference between clog and hinder

is that clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel while hinder is (slang|euphemistic) the buttocks.

As verbs the difference between clog and hinder

is that clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ) while hinder is to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.

As an adjective hinder is

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

clog

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia clog)
  • A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    • Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
  • A blockage.
    • The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  • (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
  • A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  • * Hudibras
    • As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
  • * Tennyson
    • A clog of lead was round my feet.
  • That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
  • * Burke
    • All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

    Derived terms

    * clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

    Verb

  • To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
    • Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  • To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  • * Dryden
    • The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  • To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Addison
    • The commodities are clogged with impositions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.

    hinder

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hindre (archaic)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hindrian, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.
    • A drought hinders the growth of plants.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • * 1599 , act ii, scene 2 (act i; First Folio ed.):
    • Since God ?o graciou?ly hath brought to light
    This dangerous Trea?on, lurking in our way,
    To hinder our beginnings.
  • To keep back; to delay or impede; to prevent.
  • * 1591 , act ii, scene 7 (First Folio ed.):
    • Then let me goe, and hinder not my cour?e
  • * John Locke
    • What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right?
  • (obsolete) To cause harm.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "hinder")
    Synonyms
    * (to delay or impede movement) bar, block, delay, hamper, impede, obstruct, restrain, stop * (to make a task difficult) delay, frustrate, hamper, impede, obstruct, prevent, thwart * See also
    Antonyms
    * (to delay or impede movement) aid, assist, help * (to make a task difficult) assist, expedite, facilitate, help
    Derived terms
    * hinderment * hinderer * hindrance * unhindered

    Etymology 2

    (hind)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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
  • * 1990 - C. W. H. Havard (ed.), Black's Medical Dictionary , 36th edition, p 673
    • On a line dividing the front two-thirds from the hinder one-third, and set in the shape of a V, is a row of seven to twelve large flat-topped circumvallate papillae, ...
  • (hind)
    • Usage notes
    Most current uses of this adjective occur in anatomical contexts.
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "hinder")
    Synonyms
    * (of or belonging to that part in the rear) back, hind, rear, posterior
    Antonyms
    * (of or belonging to that part in the rear) fore, front
    Related terms
    * hind * hindermost * hindmost

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, euphemistic) The buttocks.
  • * 1997 , Richard Laliberte and Stephen C. George, The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning [http://books.google.com/books?id=2MOrDKokat8C], ISBN 0875963234, page 195:
    • Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder .
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "hinder")