impede
IPA: ɪmpˈid
verb
- (transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
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Examples of "impede" in Sentences
- The lack of limbs does not impede the movement of snakes.
- The problem is that this could impede the search for the truth.
- Does the R behind my name impede you from having a true debate?
- The image does not impede the publishers ability to sell the series.
- Often the defender in retreat will destroy bridges to impede the attacker.
- The spikes impede the rolling of the eggs by the female during incubation.
- The meaninglessness of the phrases does not impede the illustrative effect.
- These particles impede the movement of dislocations throughout the lattice.
- Does fear of that label impede including race in our aesthetic debates and in our poems?
- Planning may, in other words, impede itself from functioning as its proponents claim it should.
- Al-Ansari lamented hoax calls impede the work of firefighters and might endanger lives of many people in case such calls coincide with real fire incidents.
- Belle - My comment not a criticism of the writer (you) as regards "impede" - I took it as quote from the "officials" and Best Buy people and it really lit my fire.
- Still, Pearson resists being grouped with other shorts, arguing he would rather be long Chinese stocks and expressing concern that the moniker will impede his access in China.
- All through the social mass run curious veins and streakings separating man from man and woman from woman; mysterious prerogatives and disabilities too ethereal to be distinguished by anything so crude as a title impede and disorder the great business of human intercourse.