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Impeding

Impede \Im*pede"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Impeding.] [L. impedire, lit., to entangle the feet; pref. im- in + pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. Impeach.] To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.

Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will.
--Logfellow.

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impeding

vb. (present participle of impede English)

WordNet
impeding

adj. preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street" [syn: clogging, hindering, obstructive]

Usage examples of "impeding".

Then again beta-amyloid protein accumulated in the cerebral blood vessels and in the extracellular space around nerve terminals, again impeding function.

When the control circuitry worked correctly, it applied a pressure gradient from toes to neck without impeding joint movement .

Suggest that the carrier is impeding the full use of the area available to you and is there not somewhere else that it can be placed for even more effect?

K'vin agreed, craning his neck around and impeding Chalkin's entrance into the Hall.

Their bound wrists impeding them, making basic balance a bit of a chore.

Amy and Elizabeth were quietly talking at the table, their hands impeding them a little as they sat upright in the kitchen chairs.

This was far enough away from the docks not to constitute an impeding of trade, and Khat didn’t look enough like a citizen, even from a distance, for the vigils to stir themselves.

They wanted Khat and Sagai as well for fighting near the shops and impeding trade, and not just the others.

She began the journey on her knees, the ankle chain still impeding her speed and her hands securely behind her back making her a little unsteady.

His killings, every one, had been committed against people associated with the underworld, or against misinformed do-gooders who had somehow become entangled in the wrong mess, impeding the assassin's progress.

To stay where he was invited nothing less than a slow, agonizing death, but the vapors clung to his limbs like soft white hands, impeding his every movement.

Then she began to displace the crystals, working with care, the thick gloves impeding her efforts.

You're having to take a hard look at new limits, new constraints that are impeding your ability to act on Becky's behalf.

Coalition strike aircraft shut down much of the country's electricity, water, and oil production, as well as destroying bridges and railroads, impeding movement on Iraq's roads, and hammering Iraq's military forces themselves.

Stymied in the NFZs, Saddam shifted in early January 1993 to impeding the U.