0 present participle of impede
1 to make it more difficult for something to happen or more difficult for someone to do something:
These drugs appear to act by impeding semantic organization at encoding.
The retailers, so they argued, were impeding the government's deflationary policy and were indirectly attacking the buying power of wage-earners.
However, the lack of status of this speciality evidently 'rubs off' on to students, so impeding commitment for many to specialize in this area.
They also contributed to tensions within unions and between them and liberal-leaning public interest groups, impeding efforts to form an effective health-care reform coalition.
This is one of the key gaps in our knowledge that is impeding our understanding of the evolutionary significance of lures.
Officials, for example, were convinced that rent controls hindered economic efficiency by impeding the mobility of labour.
Issues that are impeding the development and holistic approach to the total care of the patient and family have been identified and will be addressed.
It seeks and removes obstacles impeding the free flow of information.
