Synonyms

1. hinder

Sentence Examples

1. The wine would be in the front of the café against the windows to draw people in but not impede the flow for pastry eaters and coffee drinkers.
2. The comte, still paler than Raoul, followed his son, painfully traversing briers and bushes, stones and ditches, Raoul not appearing to touch the earth, no obstacle seeming to impede the lightness of his march.
3. As to there being any quantity of snow fallen or likely to fall to impede their return, that was a mere joke he was afraid they would find no difficulty.
4. With deft fingers, her nails doing nothing to impede her, she readied the needle and slid it into my vein.
5. The horror of being blocked up at Randalls, while her children were at Hartfield, was full in her imagination and fancying the road to be now just passable for adventurous people, but in a state that admitted no delay, she was eager to have it settled, that her father and Emma should remain at Randalls, while she and her husband set forward instantly through all the possible accumulations of drifted snow that might impede them.