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create difficulty so as to slow or prevent (something)
- The mistress of the house, meanwhile, as is usual with persons of her stiff and unmalleable cast, stood mostly aside; willing to lend her aid, yet conscious that her natural inaptitude would be likely to impede the business in hand.Chapter 5 — May and November (40% in)
There are no more uses of "impede" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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