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impede English

Meaning impede meaning

What does impede mean?
Definitions in simple English

impede Verb

— To impede is to make some task, progress or action not to happen or difficult to happen. The incompetent construction worker is impeding the progress of the construction project.

impede

— verb be a hindrance or obstacle to She is impeding the progress of our project — verb (= obstruct, block) block passage through obstruct the path

Synonyms impede synonyms

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impede English » English

hinder obstruct prevent block stop hamper bar thwart retard restrain oppose delay check halt encumber deter inhibit hold back detain stymie interfere hold up trammel resist interrupt handicap forestall preclude occlude obviate obturate jam hobble get in the way forbid foil embarrass curb close up be in the way withstand stymy stunt stand in the way of slow obstruction interfere with intercept head off frustrate

Topics impede topics

What do people use impede to talk about?
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Prevent
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Stop something

Conjugation impede conjugation

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impede · verb

Examples impede examples

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Simple sentences

He has tried to impede an official investigation.

Movie subtitles

Do you realize that your delay could impede justice?
Since I don't want to impede progress.
Not impede the course of justice!
Henceforth, he captured only those mysterious interpenetrations that united shape and tone by means of a secret but unceasing progression that no convulsion or cataclysm could interrupt or impede.
People are warned to remain in their homes and to keep off the streets. Under no circumstances should they attempt to attack or impede these machines.
It will impede fire in the direction of the railway gate.
He used it to impede any attempt at reform except his own.
So long as they do not break our laws, we must not impede them.
I worried that it would impede what's important to me, which is studying and prayer.
No one under my command will impede the progress of this federal task force. headed by Agent Keyes.
We must consider all options, Doctor, and not let our personal feelings impede our judgment.
Are you deliberately trying to impede my recovery?
My sister and I do not wish to impede the rescue.
You thought press-on nails would impede all the active things you do.
Please don't let your feelings for her impede the truth.
If it doesn't impede your studies, go and search.
I can't respect any legality that would impede progress.
Or malicious mischief with attempt to impede public utilization of a county right-of-way?
That shouldn't impede us from having a good time.
We must consider all options, and not let our feelings impede our judgement.
I promised not to impede their search. Hardly an invitation to colonialism.
I mean, I'm not the type of man to impede another man's happiness.
With the rebellion crushed, nothing can impede our march to final victory.
But remember, there are no actual facts to impede the full flow of the imagination.
But Shakespeare and Victor Hugo not impede progress!
No one under my command will impede the progress of this federal task force headed by Agent Keyes.
I only hope that the dog will not impede your endeavours.
When we fight the French, I want nothing, and I mean nothing to impede us.
The last thing we want to do is have it impede on your music, because that's more important than anything, right?
Don't impede her progress, Joanie.
If they're involved in procurement irregularities, any attempt by you to impede a Senate.
I'm not going to impede anything.
Should you impede my progress, sir, were I to attempt to leave this cage, you would seal your fate as irrevocably as the tyrant crossing the Rubicon!
Nonetheless, fear can impede political activity.
But we didn't leave that us to impede of we be happy.

News and current affairs

Moreover, cultural differences impede any broad agreements on regulating online content.
With larger deficits under Obama than under Romney, America would need more capital from Europe, Latin America, and Asia, while higher taxes and debt would impede US growth and thus undermine these regions' exports.
Thus, there is a global slackening of aggregate demand relative to the glut of supply capacity, which will impede a robust global economic recovery.
Of course, crime, terrorism, conflict, and political instability severe enough to cause a total breakdown of law and order significantly impede creativity and innovation.
Selling banks to foreign owners, without creating appropriate safeguards, may impede growth and stability.
They were designed not to impede Iran's nuclear program directly, but rather to increase the price that Iran's leaders must pay for pursuing their nuclear ambitions.
In modern times, the United States has employed economic sanctions in pursuit of diverse goals, from the Carter administration's efforts in the 1970s to promote human rights, to attempts to impede nuclear proliferation in the 1980s.
Yet while teachers and scholars have traveled the world for centuries seeking employment and knowledge, the modern global educational marketplace is riddled with problems that impede academic travel and distort educational choices.
But the low price of gas will impede the development of renewable energy sources unless accompanied by subsidies or carbon taxes.
The trouble is that in many cases, rules and regulations intended to ensure financial markets' stability impede the ability of pension funds and others to allocate savings smoothly and efficiently.
European law will be enough to impede any global giant - be it Japanese, European, or American - that might otherwise establish domination of the world in any sector of the world economy.
Naturally, the unions impede negotiations as much as possible.
As the European Union prepares to welcome up to twelve new members, debate is heating up among the leading candidate countries about whether or not speedy adoption of the euro will promote or impede rapid catch-up growth.
Today's high levels of inequality also impede the structural reforms needed to boost productivity, while undermining efforts to address residual pockets of excessive indebtedness.
After all, advanced countries account for about two-thirds of global GDP, so slow growth in these countries will inevitably impede global growth and truncate the growth potential of much of the developing world.
This atomization of the state and society continues to impede Libya's ability to establish effective and credible government.
I do not know by how much this extra risk will impede the growth of the US and global economies.
At the same time, the environmental policies that are urgently needed to improve air and water quality absorb resources and impede growth.
A well-designed currency chapter in the TPP would not impede US monetary independence.
The insurrection against Pakistani rule in the mineral-rich southern province of Baluchistan may impede China's plan to turn Gwadar into an energy transshipment hub to transport Gulf and African oil to western China by pipeline.
As a result of this profound contradiction between ambition and mandate, the UN often seems to impede the advance of human-rights goals as much as it realizes them.
Such deep theoretical conflicts have real-world consequences, as they impede constructive debate and cooperative action in crisis situations.
Imposing severe restrictions on the growth of their emissions growth would impede their GDP growth and severely curtail their ability to climb out of poverty.
The publicity that the press gives to these visits has helped impede an invitation to Koizumi from China's leaders for a state visit.
Serbia, which traded violent nationalism for nonviolent nationalism when Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown eight years ago, has done all it can to impede resolution of these issues, with strong support from Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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