impeding

Thân thiện

The heavy traffic is impeding the ambulance's progress.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Acting as a hindrance or obstruction: "Impeding" describes something that slows down, blocks, or prevents progress, movement, or action.
   • Causing delay: It refers to creating an obstacle that makes a process more difficult or slower to complete.

Usage

• The adjective "impeding" is typically used before a noun to describe the nature of the obstacle.
• It is a formal term often found in written reports, legal contexts, or analytical descriptions.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The fallen tree was an impeding obstacle on the road. (The fallen tree was something blocking the road.)
  • He cited a lack of funding as the impeding factor for the project's delay. (He identified a lack of funding as the factor causing the delay.)
  • The impeding regulations will affect how businesses operate. (The regulations that will act as a hindrance will affect businesses.)

Advanced Usage

• "Impeding" in legal contexts: Often used to describe actions that obstruct justice or official proceedings.
  • The witness was charged with impeding the investigation. (Note: Here, "impeding" is a gerund or present participle form of the verb "to impede," used in a different grammatical role. The adjective form would be used as in "an impeding investigation.")

Variants and Related Words

• Impede (verb): To delay or block the progress of something.
  • Bad weather can impede travel plans.
• Impediment (noun): Something that impedes; a hindrance or obstruction.
  • A speech impediment can make communication difficult.
• Unimpeded (adjective): Not obstructed or hindered.
  • The river flows unimpeded to the sea.

Synonyms

• Obstructing: Blocking a path or passage.
• Hindering: Creating difficulty or delay.
• Hampering: Slowing down or limiting movement or progress.
• Blocking: Physically preventing movement.

Antonyms

• Aiding: Helping or assisting.
• Facilitating: Making an action or process easier.
• Promoting: Supporting and encouraging progress.
• Expediting: Speeding up a process.

Related Phrases

• Impeding progress: A common phrase meaning slowing down or stopping advancement.
  • Bureaucratic red tape is impeding progress on the new policy.
• Without let or hindrance: A formal, often legal, phrase meaning without any obstruction (where "hindrance" is related to "impeding").
  • The goods must be allowed to pass without let or hindrance.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. preventing movement
   • the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street

Từ đồng nghĩa

• clogging
• hindering
• obstructive