impede

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• /ɪmˈpiːd/
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Borrowed from Latin impediō (“to shackle”), from pēs (“foot”) (compare pedestrian). First attested use as a verb was in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, see quotations.

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَرْقَلَ (ʕarqala) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Arabic: عَوَّقَ (ʕawwaqa) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Bulgarian: преча (preča) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Bulgarian: спирам (spiram) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Bulgarian: задържам (zadǎržam) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Catalan: impedir — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Chinese Cantonese: 阻住 (zo2 zyu6) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Chinese Mandarin: 阻礙 /阻碍 (zǔ'ài) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Czech: překážet — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Czech: bránit — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Czech: zabránit — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Dutch: belemmeren — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Dutch: in de weg staan — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Dutch: beletten — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Dutch: hinderen — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Finnish: haitata — to get in the way of; to hinder
• French: entraver — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Galician: impedir — to get in the way of; to hinder
• German: behindern — to get in the way of; to hinder
• German: erschweren — to get in the way of; to hinder
• German: hemmen — to get in the way of; to hinder
• German: hindern — to get in the way of; to hinder
• German: vereiteln — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Ancient Greek: κωλύω (kōlúō) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Ancient Greek: ἐγκόπτω (enkóptō) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Hungarian: gátol — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Italian: impedire — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Italian: ostacolare — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Italian: intralciare — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Latin: impediō — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Māori: rore — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Māori: whakahōtaetae — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Māori: taupare — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Māori: kaiwaenga — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Norwegian: hindre — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Persian: بازداشتن (bâzdâštan) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Portuguese: impedir — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Romanian: împiedica — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Russian: меша́ть (mešátʹ) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Russian: препя́тствовать (prepjátstvovatʹ) — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Spanish: impedir — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Spanish: empecer — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Turkish: engellemek — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Vietnamese: cản trở — to get in the way of; to hinder
• Vietnamese: ngăn cản — to get in the way of; to hinder