impede
to hinder or block progress
Roots
- in- / im- (in/into): in, into, within, or on
- ped: foot
Other words with the ped root
- expedient: practical or convenient, sometimes at moral cost
- expedite: to speed up or make easier
- expedition: journey or organized undertaking
- impediment: obstacle or hindrance
- pedal: foot-operated lever or control
- pedestrian: ordinary, dull, or literally traveling on foot
Ped gives foot; impede originally suggests getting the feet caught.
Heavy traffic impeded the rescue effort.