IMPEDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impeded mean? 

• IMPEDED (adjective)
  The adjective IMPEDED has 1 sense:

1. made difficult or slow

  Familiarity information: IMPEDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPEDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made difficult or slow

Context example:

we blamed our impeded progress on lack of money

Similar:

obstructed (shut off to passage or view or hindered from action)

 Context examples 

As a result, de novo synthesis of pyrimidines, which requires folate metabolites, is impeded and subsequently DNA synthesis is affected.

(Mafenide Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)

This unfortunate state of affairs has severely impeded treatment development, leaving the many people who suffer from depression with limited options.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She caught him by the arm, but her clinging to it merely impeded his effort.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Issue associated with linking of device and/or device components whereby their functional units set up to provide means for a transfer of fluid, gas, or data is prevented or impeded.

(Blocked Connection Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Wrapped up in a shawl, I still carried the unknown little child: I might not lay it down anywhere, however tired were my arms—however much its weight impeded my progress, I must retain it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)