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Synonyms for impede
ɪmˈpidim·pede
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
impede
To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.
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Synonyms:
baffle, balk, bar, block, check, clog, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, foil, frustrate, hamper, hinder, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, retard, stay, stop, thwartPreposition:
Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.
Princeton's WordNet
impede, hinderverb
be a hindrance or obstacle to
"She is impeding the progress of our project"
Synonyms:
jam, block, obturate, stymy, stymie, embarrass, hamper, handicap, hinder, blockade, obstruct, close up, occludeobstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close upverb
block passage through
"obstruct the path"
Synonyms:
immobilize, close, button up, fold, block up, crush, lug, halt, ram, obturate, jam, pile, pack, block off, close up, blank out, mob, freeze, obstruct, deflect, parry, stop, embarrass, shut up, kibosh, draw a blank, hinder, block, clam up, forget, chock up, throng, stuff, stymy, blockade, immobilise, bar, be quiet, occlude, barricade, dummy up, cram, wad, keep mum, choke up, jampack, stymie, shut down, belt up, close down
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Editors Contribution
choke (verb)
stop growth
plants can be choked by grass, and grass can be choked off by weeds
Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
impedeverb
Synonyms:
retard
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#735 | close | |
#992 | stuff | |
#1001 | stay | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1042 | bar | |
#1570 | pack | |
#1662 | block | |
#2167 | prevent | |
#3063 | forget | |
#3213 | ram | |
#3446 | delay | |
#5259 | jam | |
#6423 | fold | |
#9443 | freeze | |
#9957 | resist | |
#10302 | pile | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11623 | interrupt | |
#12242 | oppose | |
#12302 | interfere | |
#12365 | mob | |
#12398 | crush | |
#12951 | handicap | |
#13959 | halt | |
#16475 | lug | |
#17827 | undermine | |
#17901 | inhibit | |
#20868 | preclude | |
#21866 | parry | |
#21915 | disrupt | |
#22854 | hinder | |
#23611 | hamper | |
#25560 | impair | |
#26805 | blockade | |
#27607 | cram | |
#29400 | impede | |
#30189 | clog | |
#31363 | constrain | |
#34071 | retard | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#36659 | wad | |
#36830 | counteract | |
#39730 | obstruct | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#43279 | barricade | |
#43520 | embarrass | |
#44754 | deflect | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#50398 | throng | |
#53908 | balk | |
#69872 | stymie | |
#97074 | obstructs | |
#98831 | encumber | |
#114979 | immobilize | |
#205593 | occlude | |
#229254 | kibosh | |
#273151 | jampack | |
#299175 | immobilise |
How to use impede in a sentence?
Sharp production cuts by OPEC+ have kept crude oil futures supported, however, as market reports indicate for a marked output reduction in Dec 2018, though oil prices have demonstrated for higher upside potential in the first quarter of 2019, mounting economic challenges will continue to impede exponential gains in the longer term.
In response to the rockets fired from Gaza at Israel tonight, we targeted one of Hamas' most significant rocket production sites in Gaza, this strike will significantly impede Hamas' force-building capabilities.
Parents need to own their part of it, own their responsibility to make sure, as best they can, that they aren't setting up a situation that is going to mar or impede from the celebration because somebody got burned or somebody had an injury.
The international system is not what it was in the era of cooperation in the 1990s,( and) there is way more acceptance, willing or not, even of regimes that impede human rights, the Taliban will be quick to say,' What about Saudi Arabia ? You do a lot of business with them.
There was a theoretical concern that the generation of anti-vector antibodies by the first shot could impede the use of it again, i think these data put that to rest.
Translations for impede
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- zabránit, překážet, bránitCzech
- hindern, hemmem, erschweren, vereiteln, behindernGerman
- impedirSpanish
- مانعPersian
- haitataFinnish
- entraverFrench
- बाधा डालनाHindi
- gátol, akadályozzákHungarian
- menghalangiIndonesian
- 방해Korean
- whakahōtaetae, roreMāori
- impediëren, in de weg staan, belemmeren, hinderen, belletenDutch
- hindreNorwegian
- impedirPortuguese
- împiedicaRomanian
- препятствовать, мешатьRussian
- தடைTamil
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