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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?
Achieving honest success is not as hard as some things, some which impede it.
It looks like he was trying to impede the investigation, he was using his power to do that, and when James Comey didn't go along with him, when he wasn't his boy, he fired him.
We are not dealing with a failure of the EU, but rather with a glaring failure of some governments, who don't want to take responsibility and thereby impede a joint European solution.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice:
The competition must be fair, when China's economic policies impede the free flow of commerce and worsen trade imbalances, it distorts the global economy.
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.
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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