Synonyms

1. baulk
2. check
3. deterrent
4. hinderance
5. handicap
6. hindrance
7. balk

Sentence Examples

1. Sometime soon, she wanted to see this deep-voiced man with the speech impediment.
2. Come now, sinner, suppose the wind of fortune, hitherto so adverse, should turn in our favour, filling the sails of our desires so that safely and without impediment we put into port in some one of those islands I have promised thee, how would it be with thee if on winning it I made thee lord of it?
3. The lack of a vehicle might not have been as big an impediment as I thought.
4. He saw, at once, that this wily savage had some secret agency in their present arraignment before the nation, and determined to throw every possible impediment in the way of the execution of his sinister plans.
5. Even death was but a small impediment to the implacable, relentless march of commerce.
6. She would be an impediment to him, an obstacle standing in the way of whatever it was he hoped to achieve.
7. de Beaufort, whose lightness or generous reflection had thrown an impediment in the way of the departure of a son, now his only joy.
8. He exposed their risk and fallacy with his usual skill and it was only after he had removed every impediment, in the shape of opposing advice, that he ventured to propose his own projects.
9. What I learned revived my hopes, and I was better pleased not to have found Don Fernando than to find him married, for it seemed to me that the door was not yet entirely shut upon relief in my case, and I thought that perhaps Heaven had put this impediment in the way of the second marriage, to lead him to recognise his obligations under the former one, and reflect that as a Christian he was bound to consider his soul above all human objects.
10. The Kabeiri themselves offered the Nymph no impediment.