Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: impede
IPA transcription: [,ɪmp'id]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: impede, hinder
    Meaning: be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project"
  • Synonyms: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close_up
    Meaning: block passage through; "obstruct the path"
Usage examples
  • There was nothing in the room to impede their progress.
  • Some of the ponies are not turning out so well as I expected; they are slow walkers and must inevitably impede the faster ones.
  • There being now people enough present to impede the work, the sobered man put himself at the head of the rest, or was put there by the general consent, and made a large ring round the Old Hell Shaft, and appointed men to keep it.
  • I was aware of the great powers of vegetation that characterise these plants, which grow at a depth of twelve thousand feet, reproduce themselves under a pressure of four hundred atmospheres, and sometimes form barriers strong enough to impede the course of a ship.