impede
11impede — verb your efforts to impede our progress will be unsuccessful Syn: hinder, obstruct, hamper, hold back/up, delay, interfere with, disrupt, retard, slow (down), hobble, cripple; block, check, stop, scupper, scuttle, thwart, frustrate …
12impede the progress of — index delay, hold up (delay) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
13impede — transitive verb (impeded; impeding) Etymology: Latin impedire, from in + ped , pes foot more at foot Date: circa 1595 to interfere with or slow the progress of Synonyms: see hinder • impeder noun …
14impede — impeder, n. impedibility /im pee deuh bil i tee, ped euh /, n. impedible, adj. impedingly, adv. /im peed /, v.t., impeded, impeding. to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder. [1595 1605; < L impedire …
15impede — verb to get in the way of; to hinder Ant: assist, help, expede, expedite See Also: expede, expedite …
16impede — Synonyms and related words: arrest, backpedal, backwater, bar, block, bottle up, brake, burden, check, clip the wings, confine, confound, countercheck, cramp, cripple, cumber, curb, dam, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, delay, detain, discomfit …
17impede — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. hinder, thwart, block, deter; see bar 1 , 2 , hinder , prevent . See Synonym Study at hinder . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. block, hinder, obstruct, delay, hamper, check, thwart, bar, foil, inhibit, slow, stymie, stop,… …
18impede — im|pede [ımˈpi:d] v [T] [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: impedire, from pes foot ] to make it difficult for someone or something to move forward or make progress ▪ Storms at sea impeded our progress …
19impede — im|pede [ ım pid ] verb transitive FORMAL to make it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen: The darkness was impeding his progress …
20impede — see PEDAL …
