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Definition
create difficulty so as to slow or prevent (something)- She is impeding the progress of our project
impeding = slowing or preventing
- She is impeding the investigation.
- Israel destroyed Iraq's only nuclear reactor to impede its nuclear weapons program.
- Then he limps back up to the treeline, takes off his flowered bedsheet, hangs it on a branch: he doesn't want to be impeded.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- But the hill was treacherously steep; he was impeded by the snow and his own lack of strength.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- Once tonight we have been impeded by the ignorance of the anarchists.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The point is, kid, you're impeding the war effort.Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
- They attached the line ... being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming,Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- 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.Sarah Dessen -- Just Listen
- instead of running after the chief clerk himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, Gregor's father...Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- I felt nothing; yet dreaded to move a step, lest I should be impeded by the walls of a tomb.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- ...the folding doors slide back nearly to the walls on either hand, so that the view of the whole extent is scarcely impeded.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death
- all that impedes thee from...William Shakespeare -- Macbeth
- 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.Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
- And it does not become us, who assist in making the laws, to impede or interfere with those who carry them into execution.Dickens, Charles -- Bleak House
- Deane was too shrewd and practical a man to allow either his reminiscences or his snuff to impede the progress of trade.Eliot, George -- The Mill on the Floss
- Rocks impeded the progress of the car, and these had to be rolled out of the way.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- I was more convinced than ever that the government was behind much of the violence and the violence was impeding the negotiations.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- Owing to her baby, who somewhat impeded Thomasin's view forward and distracted her mind, she did at last lose the track.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- He is therefore impeded and inhibited and self-conscious as Shakespeare might have been if he too had known Miss Clough and Miss Davies.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
impeding = slowing or preventing progress of
impede = slow or prevent
impeded = slowed or hindered
impeded = slowed
impeded = slowed or stopped
impeding = making difficulty for
impede = slow or prevent
impeded = slowed (made more difficult)
impeding = interfering with
impeded = stopped (from proceeding)
impeded = obstructed (made more difficult)
impedes = prevents