All impede synonyms

verb impede

• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• stymie — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
• deter — To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
• disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• discomfit — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
• dam — A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• faze — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• brake — Brakes are devices in a vehicle that make it go slower or stop.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• disconcert — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• get in the way — be an obstacle
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
• embarrass — Cause (someone) to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed.
• hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• shut down — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• shut off — the act or time of shutting or closing.
• slow down — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.