How to pronounce impede
Listen to impede in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“impede” in real sentences
346 clips in the index · 168 American · 102 British · 4 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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it would impede making progress.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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uh it did not impede him from lining that switch properly or did not impede the
NTSB · hear it here
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We impede the effectiveness of their operations.
Federal Reserve · hear it here
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or even deliberately trying to impede you.
TED-Ed · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of impede. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.