Iron curtain and Impediment

Iron curtain noun - An impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries.

Impediment and iron curtain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Impediment" instead a noun phrase "Iron curtain".

Impediment noun - Something that makes movement or progress difficult.

Iron curtain and impediment are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Iron curtain" with "Impediment", this terms are similar.

Nearby Words: impede, impedimental