препятствовать

1) General subject: baffle, balk, block, blockade, check, clog, counteract, countercheck, cross, cumber, dam, debar, delay, dispute, embar, encumber, get in somebody's road, handicap, hedge, hinder, impede, inhibit, interdict (огнем и т. п.), interfere, interfere with, interrupt, keep away, keep under (росту, развитию, распространению), make difficulties, manacle, militate, obstruct (продвижению), oppose, prevent, prevent from, prohibit, prohibit from, raise difficulties, resist, set back, slug, tie up, trammel, hamper, head back, head off, stand in the way of (кому-л.), stymie, act as a check, hobble, halt

2) Computers: disallow

3) Biology: hamper (рост)

4) Medicine: embarrass

5) Colloquial: get in the way of

6) Obsolete: let

7) Engineering: stop

8) Rare: estop

9) Mathematics: be opposed to, prevent (from)

10) Law: bar, defeat, discount

11) Economy: brake

12) Australian slang: knock back

13) Automobile industry: baulk

14) Politics: get in the way (мешать, препятствовать)

15) Psychology: hinder (выполнению чего-л.)

16) Scottish language: interpel

17) Oil: preclude

18) Mass media: stand in the way

19) Business: deny, discourage, forbid, stem

20) Automation: bog down, inhibit (напр. перемещению)

21) Makarov: bar from (smth.) (чему-л.), be in the way, block up, block up, discourage (сдерживать), head (движению), hinder (затруднять, замедлять), impede (затруднять, замедлять), incumber, inhibit (сдерживать), intercept, interfere with smth (мешать), keep down, preclude from (сделать что-либо), prevent (напр. распространению инфекции), prevent (предотвращать), thwart

22) Archaic: withstand

23) Gold mining: militate against