Impede
verb
To make someone or something slow or stop.
The fallen tree is impeding traffic.
Often appears as...
- factors that impede
- impede progress
verb
To make someone or something slow or stop.
The fallen tree is impeding traffic.
Often appears as...
- factors that impede
- impede progress
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Pro Tip 1/3Visualize Blocking
Imagine 'impede' as physically blocking progress or movement to understand its application better.
The heavy snowfall impeded the hikers' ascent.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Impede' often has a negative connotation, suggesting frustration or inconvenience.
Protests impeded the delivery of supplies.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
'Impede' can be used metaphorically to describe non-physical barriers such as emotional or cognitive ones.
Fear of failure can impede one's ambition.
Pro Tip 1/3Visualize Blocking
Imagine 'impede' as physically blocking progress or movement to understand its application better.
The heavy snowfall impeded the hikers' ascent.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Impede' often has a negative connotation, suggesting frustration or inconvenience.
Protests impeded the delivery of supplies.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
'Impede' can be used metaphorically to describe non-physical barriers such as emotional or cognitive ones.
Fear of failure can impede one's ambition.
Pro Tip 1/3Visualize Blocking
Imagine 'impede' as physically blocking progress or movement to understand its application better.
The heavy snowfall impeded the hikers' ascent.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Impede' often has a negative connotation, suggesting frustration or inconvenience.
Protests impeded the delivery of supplies.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
'Impede' can be used metaphorically to describe non-physical barriers such as emotional or cognitive ones.
Fear of failure can impede one's ambition.
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Surviving a nuclear...
know that it was over there the blast and you're going this way as long as you're going across crosswise to the wind once you're out and evacuating you want to keep as much of your skin your mouth and nose covered as long as that covering doesn't impede you moving and getting out of there and finally you
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The polyphonic me PIPE...
on the human voice have always really annoyed me, because beatbox is the best way of getting musical ideas out of your head and into the world, but they're sketches at best, which is what's annoyed me. If only, if only there was a way for these ideas to come out unimpeded
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CERN's supercollider PIPE...
essentially at the speed of light. They're massless. And imagine someone incredibly important and popular and intelligent walks into the room. They're surrounded by people, and their passage through the room is impeded. It's almost like they get heavy. They get massive.
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Can you cheat death by...
There’s one more possibility to the disappearing ladders and snakes can impede your progress, but could they also help it? There are two paths to the 94 ladder that almost work, except for this snake, at exactly the midpoint between the two ladders.
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The making of cosmic...
cools and once the universe is cold enough so the protons and electrons can combine to form mutual atoms the light can travel towards us unimpeded the universe becomes transparent as it leaves the last scattering surface it's
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How does alcohol make...
and can impede the brain activity necessary for survival at toxic doses. Alcohol also stimulates a small group of neurons that extends from the midbrain to the nucleus accumbens, a region important for motivation.
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Nina Jablonski breaks...
especially, came in unimpeded. UVB turns out to be incredibly important. It's very destructive, but it also catalyzes the production of vitamin D in the skin, vitamin D being a molecule that we very much need
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See Antarctica Like...
important the overarching issue of our lifetimes nature is running its course here on impeded you know everything that needs to be happening is happening and you don't want that to change
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Beware of nominalizations...
has been allowed to remain standing. At their best, nominalizations help us express complex ideas, perception, intelligence, epistemology. At their worst, they impede clear communication.
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To solve old problems,...
So I'm beginning to suspect that our specialization is beginning to impede our progress at best, and at worst, is leading us astray. That's because life on this planet and its history
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Surviving a nuclear...
know that it was over there the blast and you're going this way as long as you're going across crosswise to the wind once you're out and evacuating you want to keep as much of your skin your mouth and nose covered as long as that covering doesn't impede you moving and getting out of there and finally you
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The polyphonic me PIPE...
on the human voice have always really annoyed me, because beatbox is the best way of getting musical ideas out of your head and into the world, but they're sketches at best, which is what's annoyed me. If only, if only there was a way for these ideas to come out unimpeded
Video examples
CERN's supercollider PIPE...
essentially at the speed of light. They're massless. And imagine someone incredibly important and popular and intelligent walks into the room. They're surrounded by people, and their passage through the room is impeded. It's almost like they get heavy. They get massive.
Video examples
Can you cheat death by...
There’s one more possibility to the disappearing ladders and snakes can impede your progress, but could they also help it? There are two paths to the 94 ladder that almost work, except for this snake, at exactly the midpoint between the two ladders.
Video examples
The making of cosmic...
cools and once the universe is cold enough so the protons and electrons can combine to form mutual atoms the light can travel towards us unimpeded the universe becomes transparent as it leaves the last scattering surface it's
Video examples
How does alcohol make...
and can impede the brain activity necessary for survival at toxic doses. Alcohol also stimulates a small group of neurons that extends from the midbrain to the nucleus accumbens, a region important for motivation.
Video examples
Nina Jablonski breaks...
especially, came in unimpeded. UVB turns out to be incredibly important. It's very destructive, but it also catalyzes the production of vitamin D in the skin, vitamin D being a molecule that we very much need
Video examples
See Antarctica Like...
important the overarching issue of our lifetimes nature is running its course here on impeded you know everything that needs to be happening is happening and you don't want that to change
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Beware of nominalizations...
has been allowed to remain standing. At their best, nominalizations help us express complex ideas, perception, intelligence, epistemology. At their worst, they impede clear communication.
Video examples
To solve old problems,...
So I'm beginning to suspect that our specialization is beginning to impede our progress at best, and at worst, is leading us astray. That's because life on this planet and its history
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Kim Brooks
American Writer
At times, our collective anger seems a worthwhile thing - it has a weight and shape and force we couldn't achieve as individuals - but at other times, I can't help wondering how much it really accomplishes, if in some ways it might even impede us in our attempts to be more thoughtful, 'enlightened' human beings.
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Jan Schakowsky
American Politician
We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.
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Jean Paul
German Author
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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Ash Sarkar
British Journalist
I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society.
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Paul Hawken
American Environmentalist
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.
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Richard Burr
American Politician
Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
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Campbell Brown
American Journalist
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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Kerry Kennedy
American Activist
The U.S. government must stand on the side of human rights, the rule of law, and democratic progress, not impede or otherwise stunt such progress.
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Kevin Brady
American Politician
Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.
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Robert Burns
Scottish Poet
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Kim Brooks
American Writer
At times, our collective anger seems a worthwhile thing - it has a weight and shape and force we couldn't achieve as individuals - but at other times, I can't help wondering how much it really accomplishes, if in some ways it might even impede us in our attempts to be more thoughtful, 'enlightened' human beings.
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Jan Schakowsky
American Politician
We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.
Quote examples
Jean Paul
German Author
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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Ash Sarkar
British Journalist
I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as a way to opt out of dealing with the multiple processes that impede our full participation in society.
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Paul Hawken
American Environmentalist
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.
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Richard Burr
American Politician
Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
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Campbell Brown
American Journalist
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
Quote examples
Kerry Kennedy
American Activist
The U.S. government must stand on the side of human rights, the rule of law, and democratic progress, not impede or otherwise stunt such progress.
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Kevin Brady
American Politician
Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.
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Robert Burns
Scottish Poet
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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