[
UK
/ɪmpˈiːdɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpidɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpidɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
preventing movement
the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street
How To Use impeding In A Sentence
- The boundaries between grains act like barriers to electric charge carriers, impeding the flow of current.
- Fallen rock is impeding the progress of rescue workers.
- I really don't feel like writing a post this week: feeling like an impeding storm is rolling-in at a time when our "levies" - the defense - are shattered to bits. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
- In a submission to a review of the rules which the watchdog has launched, he said on behalf of the Government that Ipsa was "failing in many respects" and was "impeding" the work of MPs. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- He can best aid both the process and the country by neither impeding nor cheerleading from the sidelines as congress excercises their proper constitutional mandate. Matthew Yglesias » Above the Law?
- At the same time, impeding the efforts of soldiers at war serves no constructive purpose.
- Fannie Mae and the executives it is indemnifying are lawyering this case to death and impeding justice while swindling U.S. taxpayers, since the federal government, which took control of the company in 2008, is ultimately footing the bill. Fannie Mae, wasting taxpayers' money and time
- Of the factors impeding industrial activity, only competitive imports increased their negative impact in June.
- Moreover, they are impeding humanitarian access to something approaching one million people who are languishing in camps desperately short of food and medicine.
- It did not succeed in impeding the war effort [in the Philippines] ... Christopher Lydon: Noam Chomsky: the American Socrates on an Upbeat (AUDIO)