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Adjective impeding has 1 sense
  1. 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
  1. impede, hinder - be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project"
    --1 is one way to prevent, keep
    Derived form: noun impediment1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up - block passage through; "obstruct the path"
    --2 is one way to impede, hinder
    Derived form: noun impediment2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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