IMPEDING

clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive

(adjective) preventing movement; “the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

impeding

present participle of impede

Anagrams

• impinged

Source: Wiktionary


IMPEDE

Im*pede", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Impeding.] Etym: [L. impedire, lit., to entangle the feet; pref. im- in + pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and cf. Impeach.]

Definition: To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

13 February 2025

BREAK

(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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