Adjective: impeding im'pee-ding
- Preventing movement
"the impeding crowds of revelers overflowing into the street";
- clogging, hindering, obstructive
- Be a hindrance or obstacle to
"She is impeding the progress of our project";
- hinder, trammel [literary], entrammel [literary], fetter [literary]
- Block passage through
"impede the path";
- obstruct, obturate, occlude, jam, block, close up
See also: preventative, preventive