Impediment
[ɪm'pedɪm(ə)nt] or [ɪm'pɛdɪmənt]
Definition
(n.) That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
(v. t.) To impede.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hinderance, obstruction, obstacle, check, bar, difficulty, stumbling-block.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, stumbling_block
ANT:Aid, aidance, help, assistance, succor, support, furtherance, coadjuvancy
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Examples
- Young couples, who had loved long and hopelessly, suddenly found every impediment removed, and wealth pour in from the death of relatives. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was yet another delay to that quiet talk with Sir Percival--and the Countess was the impediment this time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Still there is no impediment to returning to the door for thy brushing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Baggage, women, everything was abandoned by Bessus and his captains; and one other impediment also they left behind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The expense need not be any impediment. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Wheresoever the strong tide met with an impediment, his gaze paused for an instant. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am in a condition to prove my allegation: an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Pin the villains to the earth with my lance, Wamba, if they offered us any impediment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I was stopped there by a momentary impediment of the breath. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Nay, said my companion, I can free you from your present impediment. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was an able constitutional lawyer and jurist; but the Constitution was not an impediment to him while the war lasted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Miss Helstone had not suffered the storm to prove an impediment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Richard himself was the chief impediment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What is the nature of the impediment? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This was a strange speech, now that, on the empty stage, each might play his part without impediment from the other. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They insinuated themselves into the substances about them, and the impediments to their progress yielded at their touch. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The inquest was the first of the impediments in the way of my freedom of action. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had two selves within him apparently, and they must learn to accommodate each other and bear reciprocal impediments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Impediments, raised by others, had, years ago, come in the way of our intercourse, and cut it off. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Sharon