impede
/ɪmˈpiːd/
impede verb: to get in the way of; to hinder.
Verb
impede (third-person singular simple present impedes, present participle impeding, simple past and past participle impeded)
- To get in the way of; to hinder.
- impede someone's progress
- That I may powre my Spirits in thine Eare, / And chastise with the valour of my Tongue / All that impeides thee from the Golden Round, / Which Fate and Metaphysicall ayde doth seeme / To haue thee crown'd withall.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- Synonyms:
- hinder
impede meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
impede in Marathi
- to impede; hold or hinder movement or progress
- अडकवणे aḍkavṇe
impede in Urdu
- اٹکانا, حائل ہونا, خلل ڈالنا, روکنا, رکاوٹ ڈالنا
impede in Bengali
- বাধা দেওয়া, ব্যাহত করা, বিলম্বিত করা, পথে অন্তরায় হওয়া
impede in Telugu
- to impede, obstruct
- అడ్డు aḍḍu
More languagesFewer languages
- impede in Malayalam
- തടസ്സം ചെയ്യുക, വിലങ്ങടിക്കുക, വിഘാതപ്പെടുത്തുക, പ്രതിബന്ധിക്കുക
- impede in Kannada
- ಕಾಲ್ಗೆಡಿಸು, ತಗರು, ತಡೆಯೊಡ್ಡು, ಅಡ್ಡಿಮಾಡು
- impede in Sanskrit
- अलंकृ alaṃkṛ, कोचति kocati
- impede in Arabic
- عَرْقَلَ ʕarqala, عَوَّقَ ʕawwaqa
- impede in Persian
- بازداشتن bâzdâštan
- impede in Vietnamese
- cản trở, ngăn cản
Examples of impede in a sentence
- The lushness of the jungle impeded travel; it seemed plants deliberately tried to slow us down.
- Moreover, the position of the conduction band edge of the (Mo, Cd) monodoping impedes the photocatalytic efficiency.
- The cattle duffer′s escape would have been impeded by those young ones.
Synonyms of impede
Antonyms
Forms of impede
| third-person singular present | impedes |
|---|---|
| present participle | impeding |
| past participle | impeded |
| past | impeded |
Origin of impede
Borrowed from Latin impediō (“to shackle”), from pēs (“foot”) (compare pedestrian). First attested use as a verb was in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, see quotations.
Words formed from impede
Words that rhyme with impede
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- weed
- proceed
- stampede
- concede
- accede
- deed
- exceed
- need
- bede
- knead
- mislead
- plead
- rede
- swede
- cede
- creed
- godspeed
- heed
- intercede
- keyed
- leed
- meed
- precede
- recede
- tumbleweed
- a friend in need is a friend indeed
- beread
- greed
- he'd
- indeed
- interbreed
- kneed
- mead
- secede
- she'd
- sneed
- steed
- supersede
- underfeed
- we'd
- ye'd
- agreed
- anasheed
- aniseed
- atheed
- caid
- co-feed
- cofeed
Questions about impede
- What does impede mean?
- Impede means to get in the way of; to hinder.
- What is impede in Marathi?
- Impede in Marathi is अडकवणे (aḍkavṇe). See Impede meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is impede?
- Impede is a verb.
- How do you pronounce impede?
- Impede is pronounced /ɪmˈpiːd/.
- What is the past tense of impede?
- The past tense of impede is impeded.
Words near impede in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: impede (page history and authors); अडकवणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); impede (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Impede (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అడ్డు (Telugu) (page history and authors); impede (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impede (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अलंकृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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