impede

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To slow down or get in the way of something, making it harder.

   Heavy snow impeded the rescue team's progress up the mountain.

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.

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