Sample Sentences for
impede
(editor-reviewed)

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    They attached the line ... being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming,  (source)
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    But the hill was treacherously steep; he was impeded by the snow and his own lack of strength.  (source)
    impeded = slowed
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    The point is, kid, you're impeding the war effort.  (source)
    impeding = making difficulty for
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    Once tonight we have been impeded by the ignorance of the anarchists.  (source)
    impeded = slowed or stopped
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    Hand between both upper thighs a possibility, but this position would impede walking on the part of the subject, and no limping or stumbling is detectable.  (source)
    impede = create difficulty so as to slow or prevent
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    Because of the danger of woodland fires we unfortunately cannot have a bonfire, but everybody is free to let the flames of their imagination flicker unimpeded.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeded means not and reverses the meaning of impeded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Do you feel like your thought patterns are impeding your daily life?†  (source)
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    Detached from mankind—thrust back with sharp insults or, simply, blank stares by those whose activities he indifferently impedes—fawned over by fools who, in an analogous situation, cannot walk past a sleeping dog without calling to it and holding out their fingers—smiled at by children who tomorrow will frown or fawn, like their parents—the policeman little by little slides away from whatever comfortable humanity he may once have shared with his neighbors.†  (source)
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    She was smiling big and coming toward me at a fast clip, her progress impeded somewhat by the poster, CD, and camera she was carrying.  (source)
    impeded = slowed (made more difficult)
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    He didn't want to impede circulation through the carotid artery.†  (source)
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    It scared him to have the yellow center line buried under swirling, drifting snow, and it scared him when the heavy gusts of wind came unimpeded through the notches in the hills and actually made the heavy Buick slew around.†  (source)
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    The mud was impeding him too, because one time, when he kicked out, he slipped and fell out of view into the blackness.†  (source)
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    Why some inexplicable smart All movement of my life impedes?†  (source)
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