Hinder vs Forslow - What's the difference?
hinder | forslow |
To make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.
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* 1599 , act ii, scene 2 (act i; First Folio ed.):
To keep back; to delay or impede; to prevent.
* 1591 , act ii, scene 7 (First Folio ed.):
* John Locke
(obsolete) To cause harm.
Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.
* 1990 - C. W. H. Havard (ed.), Black's Medical Dictionary , 36th edition, p 673
(hind)
(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:
(obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
*1599 , (Ben Jonson), Every Man out of His Humour , V.8:
*:If you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.
(obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
*:But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […].
*1682 , (John Dryden), Epistles , XIII:
*:The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.
(obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Henry VI, Part 3 :
*:Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between hinder and forslow
is that hinder is (obsolete) to cause harm while forslow is (obsolete) to be slow or dilatory; loiter.As verbs the difference between hinder and forslow
is that hinder is to make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle while forslow is (obsolete) to be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.As an adjective hinder
is of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.As a noun hinder
is (slang|euphemistic) the buttocks.hinder
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Alternative forms
* hindre (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hindrian, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- A drought hinders the growth of plants.
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- Since God ?o graciou?ly hath brought to light
This dangerous Trea?on, lurking in our way,
To hinder our beginnings.
- Then let me goe, and hinder not my cour?e
- What hinders younger brothers, being fathers of families, from having the same right?
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 alsoAntonyms
* (to delay or impede movement) aid, assist, help * (to make a task difficult) assist, expedite, facilitate, helpDerived terms
* hinderment * hinderer * hindrance * unhinderedEtymology 2
(hind)Adjective
(-)- the hinder end of a wagon
- the hinder parts of a horse
- 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, ...
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, posteriorAntonyms
* (of or belonging to that part in the rear) fore, frontNoun
(en noun)- Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder .