0 past simple and past participle of impede
1 to make it more difficult for something to happen or more difficult for someone to do something:
In conjunction, these properties of social-psychological research have impeded the development of theories with explanatory power and the ability to generate novel and nontrivial hypotheses.
Perceptual fine-tuning of such stimuli and the formation of representations of social stimuli are impeded.
This methodological approach can be useful for lots of purposes, but it has impeded understanding of my own views.
Such a construction would have impeded the natural, southerly flow of water and thus protected the residential area to the south from flooding and sedimentation.
Luckily, the error that has impeded acceptance of this way of viewing matters can be readily identified and corrected.
Also, many particles, which were distributed throughout the saccharose solution, were physical obstacles, which impeded the -otation of helminth eggs.
Instead, when a misunderstanding occurred or the interactional flow was impeded, he came in and helped reestablish communication.
They impeded recruitment for military service by obliterating lists of mobilized soldiers.
