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She is impeding the progress of our projectimpeding = slowing or preventing
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She is impeding the investigation.impeding = slowing or preventing progress of
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Israel destroyed Iraq's only nuclear reactor to impede its nuclear weapons program.impede = slow or prevent
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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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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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The point is, kid, you're impeding the war effort. (source)impeding = making difficulty for
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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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They attached the line ... being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming, (source)impede = slow or prevent
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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)unimpeded = not slowed or blockedstandard 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)impeding = creating difficulty so as to slow or prevent
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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)impedes = creates difficulty so as to slow or prevent
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Now if in front of me no shadow fall, Marvel not at it more than at the heavens, Because one ray impedeth not another To suffer torments, both of cold and heat, Bodies like this that Power provides, which wills That how it works be not unveiled to us.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She impedeth" in older English, today we say "She impedes."
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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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He didn't want to impede circulation through the carotid artery.† (source)impede = create difficulty so as to slow or prevent
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Jenny was fighting valiantly to plant her feet and bring Marley to a halt, but he lumbered on unimpeded, tugging her across the parking lot in pursuit of hot-poodle butt-sniffing action.† (source)unimpeded = not slowed or blocked
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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)impeding = creating difficulty so as to slow or prevent
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