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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To retard or obstruct the progress of. See Synonyms at hinder1.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To be an obstacle to; stand in the way of; hinder; obstruct.
  2. Synonyms To clog, retard, delay, check, fetter, hamper.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to get in the way of; to hinder

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. be a hindrance or obstacle to
  2. v. block passage through

Etymologies

  1. Latin impedīre; see ped- in Indo-European roots.

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