Both Uses
impede
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Hunched with my brother in the confining darkness, I tried to imagine the invasion from the viewpoint of a defending blockhouse occupant: He created terror with his unimpeded field of fire, but he must have been terrified himself; a trapped killer, he knew that he would die there—probably from the searing heat of a flamethrower thrust through the firing hole by a desperate young Marine who had managed to survive the machine-gun spray.†
Chpt 1.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.
- The pilot was one of thousands who flew to Japan unimpeded because the Marines had conquered the sulfur island.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(impede) create difficulty so as to slow or prevent (something)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)