impediment

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noun

Plural noun:

impediments

1.
A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress; impedance.
2.
A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
Working in a noisy factory left me with a slight hearing impediment.
1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences of the Christian Religion, London: J. Tonson, Additional Discourses, Section 10, p. 308, Let us suppose a person blind and deaf from his birth, who being grown to man’s estate, is by the Dead-palsy, or some other cause, deprived of his Feeling, Tasting, and Smelling; and at the same time has the impediment of his Hearing removed, and the film taken from his eyes […]
3.
(in plural)(chiefly in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.

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Đồng nghĩa

hindranceobstruction obstacle

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English impediment, borrowed from Latin impedimentum.