| 单词 | impede |
| 释义 | impede (once / 644 pages) v To impede something is to delay or block its progress or movement. Carrying six heavy bags will impede your progress if you're trying to walk across town. Impede comes from the Latin impedire which literally means "to hold the feet," formed from the prefix in- "in" plus pes "foot." Think about walking with a cast on your foot––how slow and awkward that would be. If you have a hard time reading, that will impeded your progress in math. An impediment is something that impedes, such as a physical defect that affects speech––a speech impediment. WORD FAMILYimpede: impeded, impedes, impediment, impeding+/impeded: unimpeded/impediment: impediments/unimpeded: unimpededly USAGE EXAMPLES“We will not allow any nation to dominate this industry and impede innovation through unfair trade practices and massive, non-market-based state intervention.” Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) U.S. companies are preparing to invest again after years on the sidelines, and rising interest rates are unlikely to impede them. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) It was that the measure would impede rather than advance Israeli-Palestinian peace — and he was right. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1v be a hindrance or obstacle to She is impeding the progress of our project Syn|Hypo|Hyper hinder block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude block passage through inhibitlimit, block, or decrease the action or function of interferecome between so as to be hindrance or obstacle set backslow down the progress of; hinder hobblehamper the action or progress of stuntcheck the growth or development of block off, blockadeobstruct access to barricade, barricadoblock off with barricades barricadeprevent access to by barricading asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocateimpair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of tie uprestrain from moving or operating normally dam, dam upobstruct with, or as if with, a dam block out, screenprevent from entering earth up, land upblock with earth, as after a landslide bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stoprender unsuitable for passage back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foulbecome or cause to become obstructed dwarfcheck the growth of keep, prevent stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state 2v block passage through Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude disengage, free free or remove obstruction from block off, blockade obstruct access to barricade, barricadoblock off with barricades barricadeprevent access to by barricading asphyxiate, choke, stifle, suffocateimpair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of tie uprestrain from moving or operating normally dam, dam upobstruct with, or as if with, a dam block out, screenprevent from entering earth up, land upblock with earth, as after a landslide bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stoprender unsuitable for passage back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foulbecome or cause to become obstructed gum upstick together as if with gum block off, close off, shut offblock off the passage through shadeprotect from light, heat, or view closebar access to crap upbecome obstructed or chocked up block, choke up, lug, stuffobstruct silt, silt upbecome chocked with silt hinder be a hindrance or obstacle to |
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