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Synonyms for hinder

The synonym for hinder recorded in this bank is back, in the sense "located at or near the back of an animal". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for hinder

backadjective, in the sense "located at or near the back of an animal"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and hinder carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

located at or near the back of an animal

The hinder part of a carcass.

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The true synonym

back

Same sentence, swapped: The back part of a carcass.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

snub
damp
cool

Where hinder turns up in the game

hinder is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play hinder

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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