impede
Pronunciation
[change]- IPA (key): /ɪmpid/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: im‧pede
Verb
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- (transitive) To impede is to make some task, progress or action not to happen or difficult to happen.
- The incompetent construction worker is impeding the progress of the construction project.