Both Uses of
impede
in
Metamorphosis
- instead of running after the chief clerk himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, Gregor's father...
Part 1 *impeding = interfering with
- That would have let him crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let him quickly forget his past when he had still been human.†
Part 2
Definition:
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(impede) create difficulty so as to slow or prevent (something)