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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to interfere with or obstruct someone/something and prevent or slow/delay their progress;

e.g. She was worried that she would impede her gifted child's progress.

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Similar Words

Blacklist

Clog

Cramp

Detain

Disbar

Disfranchise

Embarrass

Encumber

Fetter

Hamper

Handcuff

Handicap

Hinder

Hobble

Hog-tie

Holdback

Holdup

Inhibit

Kibosh

Manacle

Obstruct

Rein

Second-guess

Shackle

Short-circuit

Stem

Stymie

Tie-up

Trammel

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Opposite Words

Abet

Accelerate

Accommodate

Accredit

Advance

Advantage

Aid

Allow

Assist

Authorize

Avail

Back

Backstop

Beget

Benefit

Breed

Bring

Bundle

Catalyze

Cause

Certify

Charter

Clear

Come

Commission

Create

Credential

Cultivate

Disembarrass

Disengage

Disentangle

Do

Ease

Effect

Effectuate

Empower

Enable

Encourage

Engender

Expedite

Extricate

Facilitate

Fare

Fast-forward

Fast-track

Favor

Forge

Forward

Foster

Free

Further

Generate

Go

Grease

Green light

Hasten

Have

Help

Hurry

Incubate

Induce

Into

Invest

Invoke

Leave

Let

Liberate

License

Loosen

Make

March

Nourish

Nurse

Nurture

Oblige

Occasion

Open

Pace

Pave

Permit

Proceed

Produce

Profit

Progress

Promote

Prompt

Qualify

Quicken

Release

Rush

Serve

Smooth

Spawn

Suffer

Support

Tolerate

Unclog

Unplug

Unstop

Untangle

Untie

Vest

Vouchsafe

Warrant

Wend

Whisk

Work

Yield

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Related Words

Arrest

Avert

Baffle

Balk

Ban

Bar

Barricade

Beat

Block

Blockade

Brake

Break

Breakup

Bridle

Can

Catch

Cease

Chain

Check

Checkmate

Choke

Circumscribe

Closeout

Confine

Constrain

Contain

Control

Curb

Cutoff

Debar

Decelerate

Decline

Delay

Deny

Derail

Desist

Disallow

Disapprove

Discomfit

Discommode

Discontinue

Disoblige

Disrupt

Disturb

Drop

Eliminate

Enchain

End

Enjoin

Except

Exclude

Fetter

Foil

Forbid

Forestall

Fox

Frustrate

Govern

Halt

Halter

Handcuff

Help

Hold

Hold-down

Holdup

Inconvenience

Inhibit

Interdict

Keep

Knockoff

Layoff

Leash

Limit

Manacle

Measure

Mire

Muzzle

Negative

Nix

Obviate

Outfox

Outlaw

Outsmart

Outwit

Overreach

Pinion

Preclude

Prevent

Prohibit

Proscribe

Quit

Refuse

Regulate

Rein

Reject

Repress

Restrain

Restrict

Retain

Retard

Roadblock

Rule

Sabotage

Shackle

Shutoff

Shutout

Slacken

Slow

Smother

Stall

Stay

Stifle

Still

Stop

Strangle

Stump

Stunt

Suffocate

Suppress

Tame

Tether

Thwart

Tie

Trammel

Trouble

Withhold

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Phrases

• put the brakes on

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