impediment

1. n. That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Source: opted

2. v. t. To impede. Source: opted

3. n. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress Source: wordnet

4. n. any structure that makes progress difficult Source: wordnet

5. That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction; obstacle; difficulty; incumbrance. -- Impediment, Obstacle, Difficulty, Hindrance. An impediment literally strikes against our feet, checking our progress, and we remove it. An obstacle rises before us in our path, and we surmount or remove it. A difficulty sets before us something hard to be done, and we encounter it and overcome it. A hindrance holds us back for a time, but we break away from it. The eloquence of Demosthenes was to Philip of Macedon, a difficulty to be met with his best recources, ant obstacle to his own ambition, and an impedimen in his political career. C. J. Smith. To impede. [R.] Bp. Reynolds. Source: webster

6. That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, oreffect.Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on withoutimpediment. Shak.Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Source: adambom

7. n:100 n something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress n any structure that makes progress difficult Source: ecdict

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