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Adjective impeding has 1 sense
- clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive - preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"
Antonym: permissive (indirect, via preventive)
Verb impede has 2 senses
- impede, hinder - be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project"
--1 is one way to prevent, keep
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up - block passage through; "obstruct the path"
--2 is one way to impede, hinder
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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