Impediment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMPEDIMENT in dictionary:

VERB:
• To impede.
NOUN:
• something that impedes
• a hindrance or obstruction in doing something
• That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
• any structure that makes progress difficult
• a defect in a person's speech, such as a lisp or stammer.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something that impedes; an impairment (as a stutter or a lisp) that interferes with the proper articulation of speech

Words related to IMPEDIMENT

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Words that contain IMPEDIMENT

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How to use IMPEDIMENT in a sentence

• The eye-lids, transparent and bloodless, offered no complete impediment to vision.
• He was a little, pale fellow, with only one arm, and he had an impediment in his speech.
• It is the power of Nature running without impediment from the brain and will into the hands.
• Insensible to all external circumstances, he hurried forward, taking the most direct course, and leaping every impediment in his path.
• If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined, I charge you on your souls to utter it.
• But a far more common impediment to the true use of speech, is carelessness.
• Fortunately he met with no further impediment to his return, and reached the tent much fatigued.
• Believing in the efficacy of prayer, he called together his friends, specially to ask that his impediment might be removed.
• Every possible delay and impediment was resorted to by the British commissioners, who further refused to submit the points disputed to the umpire.
• The numerous streams we met with were also a serious impediment, for many of these were so muddy and deep that we had great difficulty in finding a place where we could cross.
• It persisted during the whole of the war, and would probably have proved a serious impediment to the conclusion of peace had he lived until it became accomplished.
• Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons.
• The Resident, Captain Shakespear, and their few attendants, tried to stop them by every impediment they could throw in their way, but in vain.
• The heavy rains of this month interfere in a material degree with outdoor work, and are often a great impediment to the orderly management that should prevail.
• Lamb was a good Latin scholar, and probably would have gone to college upon one of the School foundations but for the impediment in his speech.
• Impediment is increased, and bias exaggerated, by evil example.
• In the diagnosis of hip lameness, one is guided in a general way by the character of the impediment manifested.
• Swinging-leg lameness is often present and the impediment is more accentuated when the animal is caused to step backward.
• Conscientious Church people in towns would generally have acknowledged that it was a duty, wherever there was no real impediment.
• Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment.
• If he was struck, his heels went up suddenly and very high, but it was no impediment.
• I shall perhaps expose our young man to the contempt of superior minds if I say that all this seemed to him an insuperable impediment to his making up to Verena.
• He had not yet relinquished his hopes of seeing his son a churchman, and marriage was a fatal impediment.
• The tides changing only twice in twenty-four hours presented a great impediment to our exploration, and it was evening before we could again move onwards.
• We crossed one or two eminences, but the carts met with no impediment in a journey of fifteen miles.
• Furthermore, it was evident from the manner in which the propellers of the ship had ceased their revolutions that they had struck an impediment of some kind.
• By a happy fatality, through all the summer they met with no Indians, and experienced no impediment in the way of the most successful hunting.
• Every impediment to contagion and imitation in expression is an impediment to comprehension.
• As I have already stated, in neither race is any other impediment considered than the first degree of kindred.
• Just as his oil failed, he extricated himself from this impediment, and was the first person who ever succeeded in overcoming it.
• An occasional model would only disturb my ideal conception of the figure, and be a positive impediment in my career.

Similar words containing PEDIM without suffix ent and without prefix im

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