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Impeding   /ɪmpˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Impeding

adjective
1.
Preventing movement.  Synonyms: clogging, hindering, obstructive.



Impede

verb
(past & past part. impeded; pres. part. impeding)
1.
Be a hindrance or obstacle to.  Synonym: hinder.
2.
Block passage through.  Synonyms: block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude.






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"Impeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be led by the Spirit, and indolent and unresponsive in relation to the Word of God and to prayer. Again, in the outward walks of life, in temporal conditions, only obstacles and evils meet us everywhere, impeding our spiritual progress and impelling us to suppress the Gospel and ...
— Epistle Sermons, Vol. III - Trinity Sunday to Advent • Martin Luther

... tightened his belt and for the second time they went down the hill in long jumps that sent loose stones crashing through the brushwood. Once on the level they ran for the sounds of trouble as fast as they could make headway through impeding undergrowth. They broke through at last into the tote road and ran at top speed down a straight stretch of it that was like a long aisle between the flanking trunks of spruce and hemlock. There was a sharp turn in the trail at the end of this aisle and judging by the glow of a fire that ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse

... although he spoke like one who learns a language from books instead of the familiar converse of people, and his thoughts clothed themselves in images which those about him disdained and threw off as impeding their hard race of life, poor Lot Gordon's heart beat in time with the hearts of his kind. But that Madelon could not know because hers was so ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... main trail and, dismounting, led their horses through the scrubby woods, which were thick enough to give them cover without impeding very materially their progress. Within a hundred yards of the top they tied their horses in the thicket and climbed the slight ascent. Crawling on hands and knees to the lip of the canyon, they looked down upon ...
— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor

... to have no business where they are. Moreover, D'Enrico shows his figures off, which Tabachetti never does: the result is that in his chapels each figure has its attention a good deal drawn to the desirableness of neither being itself lost sight of, nor impeding the view of its neighbours. This is fatal, and though Giacomo Ferro is doubtless more practically guilty in the matter than D'Enrico, yet D'Enrico is the responsible author of the work, and must bear the blame accordingly. Standing once with Signor Pizetta ...
— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler


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