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Definition: Impeded |
ImpededAdjective1. Made difficult or slow; "we blamed our impeded progress on lack of money". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "impeded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Impeded |
| English words defined with "impeded": encumbered ♦ hitch, hobble ♦ Impedible ♦ limp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "impeded": Arterial Occlusive Diseases ♦ impeded drainage ♦ water stress effect. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "impeded": impede, Impedible. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use of this therapy is further impeded by lack of access to prenatal care and to appropriate delivery services. (references) | |
Each method is effective in its own way, but technical or interpretative limitations have impeded widespread application. (references) | ||
Business | Licensing of leasing activities has seriously impeded the process of foreign capital inflow into the local market. (references) | |
The Korean government has also tried to break the unhealthy linkages between government, banks, and the chaebols which impeded competition and market access, both in Korea and in other markets, and resulted in excessive debt, over-capacity and uneconomic investments. (references) | ||
Children | Czech Republic | Language and cultural barriers frequently impeded the integration of Romani children into mainstream schools. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | The law provides for these rights; however, in practice government security forces routinely impeded domestic travel. (references) |
Turkey | Bureaucratic procedures and considerations relating to historic preservation at times have impeded repairs to existing religious facilities. (references) | |
Economic History | Uzbekistan | The lack of a secondary market has impeded trading in these shares, however. (references) |
China | Enforcement of existing IPR regulations is uneven and is sometimes impeded by local interests. (references) | |
Russia | The development of e-commerce is greatly impeded by the lack of telecommunications infrastructure. (references) | |
Human Rights | Moldova | However, late in the year, the Transnistrian authorities increasingly impeded OSCE travel to the region. (references) |
Jamaica | Severe overcrowding (more than three times capacity) impeded movement and necessitated sleeping in shifts. (references) | |
Lebanon | A shortage of judges has impeded efforts to adjudicate cases backlogged during years of internal conflicts. (references) | |
Minorities | Kenya | Each group claims to have a larger number of adherents than is plausible, and some Muslim groups believe that the Government and business communities deliberately have impeded development in predominantly Muslim areas. (references) |
Political Economy | Congo | Lack of transparency and inefficient government impeded rehabilitation and development. (references) |
EL SALVADOR | Some workers, however, have complained that the government impeded them from exercising their right of association. (references) | |
Political Rights | Equatorial Guinea | Roadblocks impeded the opposition's ability to travel; and opposition leaders were detained intermittently and sometimes were mistreated, tortured, or assessed stiff fines. (references) |
Ethiopia | In August the NEB made a statement indicating that the Government was aware of election irregularities and that the harassment of persons in the SNNPRS had impeded the organization of local elections. (references) | |
Trade | Tanzania | High interest rates have impeded export business. (references) |
Travel | Chad | This route is reportedly quicker and cheaper, but it is impeded by the extra border crossings (and the illicit taxes this involves). (references) |
Women | Syria | Women are not impeded from owning or managing land or other real property. (references) |
Uzbekistan | However, women are not impeded formally from seeking a role in the workplace, and women who open businesses or seek careers are not hindered legally. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Iceland | Union membership is not impeded by law or practice. (references) |
Antigua and Barbuda | There are no areas of the country where union organization or collective bargaining is discouraged or impeded. (references) | |
Albania | The absence of a witness protection program also impeded the Government's ability to build strong cases against traffickers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | If by a collision with France in a case where she is clearly in the wrong the march of liberal principles shall be impeded, the responsibility for that result as well as every other will rest on her own head. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Impeded" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 62.61% of the time. "Impeded" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 62.61% | 72 | 39,377 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 33.91% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.48% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 115 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "impeded": impeded drainage. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "impeded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 妨碍 (Encumber, Encumbered, Encumbering, hindrance, impede, impeding, molest, molested, Molesting). (various references) | |
Danish | hæmmet diffusion (impeded diffusion). (various references) | |
Dutch | de erkenning ervan kan niet belemmerd worden (its recognition may not be impeded). (various references) | |
Finnish | henkeä salpasi (breathing was impeded). (various references) | |
French | il ne peut être fait obstacle sa reconnaissance (its recognition may not be impeded), drainage difficile (impeded drainage), diffusion limitée (impeded diffusion). (various references) | |
German | verhindert (circumvents, disabled, disables, impedes, inhibits, prevents). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terhambat (hampered, obstructed). (various references) | |
Italian | il riconoscimento non ne possa essere ostacolato (its recognition may not be impeded). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 差し"える (to become impeded, to hinder, to interfere). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さしつかえる (to become impeded, to hinder, to interfere). (various references) | |
Korean | 방해하" (balked, Barred, Hampered, Hindered, Interfered, molested, Obstructive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impededay.(various references) | |
Spanish | difusión limitada (impeded diffusion). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inpedita, inpediti, inpeditioris, inpeditis, inpeditus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "impeded": unimpeded. (additional references) | |
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"Impeded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empede, empeed, imbeded, imbided, Imede, imipenem, impaved, impedit, impeed, impered, impleded, impude, impuded, inbeded, Inpadoc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "impeded" (pronounced i'mpē"dud) |
| 7 | i' m p ē" d u d | unimpeded. |
| 6 | -m p ē" d u d | stampeded. |
| 5 | -p ē" d u d | speeded. |
| 4 | -ē" d u d | acceded, beaded, ceded, conceded, deeded, exceeded, heeded, interceded, needed, pleaded, preceded, proceeded, receded, seceded, seeded, succeeded, superseded, unheeded, unneeded, weeded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abided, abounded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, plodded, pounded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, secluded, seconded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, splendid, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheralded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-m-p" | |
-1 letter: impede. | |
-2 letters: imped. | |
-3 letters: deed, deem, deep, deme, died, dime, eide, idem, meed, peed, pied. | |
-4 letters: dee, did, die, dim, dip, eme, imp, med, mid, ped, pee, pie. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, em, id, me, mi, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-i-m-p" | |
+1 letter: impended. | |
+2 letters: bedimpled, impleaded, impledged, unimpeded. | |
+3 letters: epidendrum, epidermoid, mispleaded, pedimented. | |
+4 letters: distempered, epidendrums, preadmitted, premodified, reprimanded. | |
+5 letters: deemphasized, epididymides, misdeveloped, predominated, premeditated, simpleminded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 65 64 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. . -.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p e d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 0065 0064 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43798271707170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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