Reverse Dictionary: IMPEDE

ADJECTIVES
► CUMBERSOME of places or ways: obstructing and impeding motion or progress; troublesome to pass or get through → 1487 obs.
► IMPEDIBLE that can be impeded, obstructed, or hindered → 1655 obs.
► IMPEDIENT obstructive, hindering, impeding → 1596
► IMPEDIMENTAL of the nature of an impediment; obstructive; impeding → 1654
► IMPEDIMENTARY of the nature of an impediment; obstructive; impeding → 1888
► IMPEDITE impeded, obstructed, hindered; having an impediment, defective → 1544 obs.
► IMPEDITIVE tending to impede or obstruct; obstructive → 1651
► LETTED hindered, impeded → 1388 obs.

NOUNS
► ACCUMBRANCE the of encumbering, impeding, or overwhelming; molestation, injury → 1489 obs.
► IMPEDIBILITY liability to be impeded → 1677 obs.
► IMPEDITION the act of impeding; hindering → 1623 obs.
► MUD HOLE something that impedes progress or entraps a person → 1733

VERBS
► AGGRAVATE to make heavy; to burden, to weigh down; also, to encumber, to impede, to retard → 1530 obs.
► BAFFLE ► BOFFLE to impede, to obstruct, to thwart, to balk → 1895 Eng. dial.
► BALK to hinder, to prevent, to thwart, to impede → 1865 Eng. dial.
► DACKLE to cause to hesitate, to impede, to hold back → 1934 Sc.
► FANK to coil a rope, to twist, to knot; to entangle the feet, to impede → 1660 Sc.
► HABBLE to confuse, to perplex, to nonplus, to embarrass, to impede, to hamper or foil in the performance of anything → 1825 Sc.
► IMPEACH to impede, to hinder, to prevent → c1380 obs.
► IMPEDITE to impede → c1535 obs.
► LANTER to foil, to impede, to hinder → 1928 Sc.
► MAGGLE to impede, to hinder, to inconvenience → a1813 Sc.
► MOOR to impede, to hamper → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SNAG to impede, to inconvenience → 1833
► STYMIE to impede, obstruct, frustrate, thwart a person, an activity, etc. → 1902
► TAIGLE to entangle, to impede, or to hinder in course or action; to keep back, to retard, to detain, to delay → 1635 Sc.
► TARRY to detain, to delay, to retard, to keep back a person or agent for a time; to keep waiting; to hold in check, to impede, to hinder → 1340 obs.
► TEAGLE to entangle, to impede, or to hinder in course or action; to keep back, to retard, to detain, to delay → 1635 Sc.
► THROGGLE to trammel, to impede, said of any article of dress that impedes free movement → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)