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Definition

create difficulty so as to slow or prevent (something)

impeding = slowing or preventing

impeding = slowing or preventing progress of

Israel destroyed Iraq's only nuclear reactor to impede its nuclear weapons program.

impede = slow or prevent

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

impeded = slowed or hindered

But the hill was treacherously steep; he was impeded by the snow and his own lack of strength.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

impeded = slowed

Once tonight we have been impeded by the ignorance of the anarchists.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

impeded = slowed or stopped

The point is, kid, you're impeding the war effort.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

impeding = making difficulty for

They attached the line ... being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming,
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

impede = slow or prevent

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

impeded = slowed (made more difficult)

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

impeding = interfering with

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

impeded = stopped (from proceeding)

...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

impeded = obstructed (made more difficult)

impedes = prevents

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

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