impede
/ɪmˈpiːd/ verb C1- To get in the way of; to hinder. · impede someone's progress
He/she/it impedes · Past impeded · Past participle impeded · -ing form impeding
Verb forms
- Base form
- impede
- He/she/it
- impedes
- Past
- impeded
- Past participle
- impeded
- -ing form
- impeding
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The carriage stopped, the doctor alighted, walked swiftly back to where I had also halted, and told me in an excellent sardonic fashion that he feared the road was narrow, and that he hoped his carriage did not impede the passage of my bicycle.
Your horses got as far as Ranelagh, when they darted forward like mad things, and galloped away at so fearful a rate, that there seemed no other prospect for myself and my poor Edward but that of being dashed to pieces against the first object that impeded their progress, when a strange-looking man,—an Arab, a negro, or a Nubian, at least a black of some nation or other—at a signal from the count, whose domestic he is, suddenly seized and stopped the infuriated animals, even at the risk of being trampled to death himself; and certainly he must have had a most wonderful escape.
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