Usually means: Hinder, obstruct, or slow progress.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. impede: Merriam-Webster
  2. impede: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impede: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impede: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impede: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impede, impede: Wordnik
  7. impede: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. impede: Wiktionary
  9. impede: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. impede: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. impede: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Impede, impede: Dictionary.com
  13. impede: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Impede: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. impede: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. impede: Rhymezone
  17. Impede: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. impede: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. impede: FreeDictionary.org
  20. impede: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. impede: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. impede: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impede: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impede: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impede)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.

Similar:
occlude, close up, hinder, obstruct, block, jam, impedite, impinge, impeach, thwart, more...

Opposite:
facilitate, assist, help, ease

Types:
block, obstruct, hinder, hamper, thwart, more...

Phrases:
to impede with obstacles, impede progress, impede legally, archaic form of to impede, impede on, more...

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Similar:
occlude, close up, hinder, obstruct, block, jam, impedite, impinge, impeach, thwart, more...

Opposite:
facilitate, assist, help, ease

Types:
block, obstruct, hinder, hamper, thwart, more...

Phrases:
to impede with obstacles, impede progress, impede legally, archaic form of to impede, impede on, to impede upon, opposite of impede, impede motoring, impede the freedom, does not impede, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark red,     brown,     maroon, more...



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