All 9 Uses of
impede
in
The Ramayana
- Two fiends who change their forms at will Impede that rite with cursed skill.†
Book 1 *impede = create difficulty so as to slow or prevent
- s dread commands impel Two demons who in might excel, Márícha and Suváhu hight, To trouble and impede the rite.†
Book 1
- She sore impeded and beset By Ráma and his arrowy net, Though skilled in guile and magic lore, Rushed on the brothers with a roar.†
Book 1impeded = slowed or prevented (something made more difficult)
- And with foul heart and evil deed Thy sacrifice, great Saint, impede.†
Book 1impede = create difficulty so as to slow or prevent
- Rise, monarch, and provide with speed That naught its happy course impede.†
Book 1
- Come, while they all unconscious sleep, Let us upon the chariot leap, And swiftly on our journey speed Where naught our progress may impede, That these fond citizens who roam Far from Ikshváku's ancient home, No more may sleep 'neath bush and tree, Following still for love of me.†
Book 2
- wife, The devotee of saintliest life: "Ten thousand years this votaress bent On sternest rites of penance spent; She when the clouds withheld their rain, And drought ten years consumed the plain, Caused grateful roots and fruit to grow And ordered Gangá here to flow: So from their cares the saints she freed, Nor let these checks their rites impede, She wrought in Heaven's behalf, and made Ten nights of one, the Gods to aid:(400) Let holy Anasúyá be An honoured mother, Prince, to thee.†
Book 2
- Gods, saints, and heavenly bards beheld That flight that none had paralleled, Then to the Nágas' mother(795) came And thus addressed the sun-bright dame: "See, Hanumán with venturous leap Would spring across the mighty deep,— A Vánar prince, the Wind-God's seed: Come, Surasá, his course impede.†
Book 5
- s standard footing found; Then springing unimpeded down Stood on his bow and golden crown.†
Book 6unimpeded = 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.
Definition:
create difficulty so as to slow or prevent (something)