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Definition of Impedes
1. impede [v] - See also: impede
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impedes
Literary usage of Impedes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unemployment: A Problem of Industry by William Henry Beveridge Beveridge (1912)
"Numbers unemployed and average period of unemployment in good and bad years
respectively. Complication of many factors impedes direct treatment of the ..."
2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"... Something impedes him, but what the obstacle may be it is not so easy to discover.
All that appears on the surface is that seven years later, in 1688, ..."
3. A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada: Parliamentary and Political by Robert Christie (1866)
"House of Assembly,"—" That this refusal of the " Governor in Chief essentially
impedes the despatch of business for which the Parliament was " called ..."
4. Journey to Ararat by Friedrich Parrot (1859)
"The Plague impedes the Enterprise.—Excursion into Kakheti.— Wine of that
Province.—Skin Bottles.—Intemperance.—Wine Jars in the Ground.—Their great Size. ..."
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