0 to make it more difficult for something to happen or more difficult for someone to do something: --
1 to slow something down or prevent an activity from making progress at its previous rate: --
As for those countries seeking entry into that organization, foreign property restrictions will impede the capital market integration that entry would otherwise bring about.
Luckily, the error that has impeded acceptance of this way of viewing matters can be readily identified and corrected.
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.
Tumour vessels are extremely leaky and tortuous, which impedes uniform blood flow, oxygenation and drug delivery in tumours.
This methodological approach can be useful for lots of purposes, but it has impeded understanding of my own views.
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.
These structural differences were highly significant from the point of view of assisting or impeding the output of controversial literature.
The retailers, so they argued, were impeding the government's deflationary policy and were indirectly attacking the buying power of wage-earners.
